Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Mongolia and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970.
I was there at the first Onyeabor show in Enugu.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Ice-T to the funk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by The Buckinghams. All the underground hits.
All The Knickerbockers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every E-Dancer record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter & Gordon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Ronnie Foster,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Bootsy Collins,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Star Department,
Infiniti,
Sam Rivers,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Tres Demented,
David Bowie,
Alphaville,
Brothers Johnson,
Jacob Miller,
Radiohead,
Ultravox,
Half Japanese,
Avey Tare,
The Standells,
Ornette Coleman,
The Cramps,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Gil Scott Heron,
Suicide,
Scientists,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Robert Görl,
The Walker Brothers,
Young Marble Giants,
Arcadia,
the Slits,
Thee Headcoats,
Blancmange,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Eli Mardock,
The Blues Magoos,
Kayak,
Danielle Patucci,
Echospace,
MDC,
The Pretty Things,
Althea and Donna,
Gong,
Rites of Spring,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Bobby Womack,
Clear Light,
Alton Ellis,
Lower 48,
Matthew Bourne,
Monks,
Procol Harum,
Idris Muhammad,
David McCallum,
Lalo Schifrin,
the Normal,
Michelle Simonal,
Funky Four + One,
Junior Murvin,
The Cure, The Cure, The Cure, The Cure.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.