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 Jordan and from Jakarta.
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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Pantaleimon to the techno kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 David Axelrod. All the underground hits.
All Zero Boys tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grauzone record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marmalade record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Liliput,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Divine Comedy,
Godley & Creme,
Shuggie Otis,
Sarah Menescal,
David Axelrod,
Skarface,
Gerry Rafferty,
Joe Smooth,
Bill Near,
Nirvana,
Harry Pussy,
Swans,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Davy DMX,
Harmonia,
Gichy Dan,
One Last Wish,
PIL,
Bad Manners,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Jeff Lynne,
Aaron Thompson,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Kenny Larkin,
Chrome,
Deepchord,
Kurtis Blow,
Alton Ellis,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Chris & Cosey,
Metal Thangz,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Pantytec,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Flipper,
Prince Buster,
The Stooges,
Gregory Isaacs,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Pet Shop Boys,
Warren Ellis,
Surgeon,
The Victims,
Television Personalities,
Kevin Saunderson,
Cybotron,
the Swans,
The Standells,
the Normal,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Brick,
Trumans Water,
Idris Muhammad,
Aswad,
John Foxx,
Funky Four + One,
Smog,
Dorothy Ashby, Dorothy Ashby, Dorothy Ashby, Dorothy Ashby.
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.