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 Bolivia and from Johannesburg.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Tokyo.
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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Scratch Acid to the rap 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 Roxy Music. All the underground hits.
All Moby Grape tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every La Düsseldorf record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 Deadbeat record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hashim,
Tears for Fears,
Magma,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Sound Behaviour,
Susan Cadogan,
It's A Beautiful Day,
LL Cool J,
David McCallum,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Anthony Braxton,
Leonard Cohen,
Interpol,
Ludus,
Silicon Teens,
Jeff Mills,
Eden Ahbez,
Pussy Galore,
Spoonie Gee,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Moleskins,
Unrelated Segments,
the Swans,
Fela Kuti,
Marvin Gaye,
New Age Steppers,
The Gun Club,
Accadde A,
Talk Talk,
The Standells,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Radiopuhelimet,
Mandrill,
The Offenders,
The Music Machine,
Alice Coltrane,
Sandy B,
Frankie Knuckles,
David Bowie,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Black Moon,
Vladislav Delay,
The Modern Lovers,
Audionom,
Laurel Aitken,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
La Düsseldorf,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Misunderstood,
Scientists,
Wasted Youth,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
10cc,
Guru Guru,
DJ Sneak,
Wire,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Wolf Eyes,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Stereo Dub,
Bobby Sherman,
Alison Limerick,
Liaisons Dangereuses, Liaisons Dangereuses, Liaisons Dangereuses, Liaisons Dangereuses.
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.