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 Equatorial Guinea and from Bologna.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 The Searchers to the jazz 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 Infiniti. All the underground hits.
All Barry Ungar tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every MC5 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 güiro and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Skarface record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Dennis Brown,
Kayak,
UT,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Al Stewart,
Alison Limerick,
Gang of Four,
Judy Mowatt,
The Blackbyrds,
Scan 7,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Buzzcocks,
Banda Bassotti,
Alphaville,
Drexciya,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Dark Day,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Babytalk,
Camberwell Now,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
L. Decosne,
Lower 48,
Erasure,
The Dead C,
Skriet,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Vladislav Delay,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Detroit Cobras,
Au Pairs,
Audionom,
Public Image Ltd.,
Throbbing Gristle,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Moebius,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Terry Callier,
Junior Murvin,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Neil Young,
Smog,
Eve St. Jones,
Agent Orange,
Skaos,
KRS-One,
Gregory Isaacs,
DNA,
Von Mondo,
Ronnie Foster,
The Move,
The Real Kids,
The Gun Club,
Soul Sonic Force,
Hot Snakes,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Matthew Halsall,
Arab on Radar,
Scott Walker,
The Invisible,
The Doobie Brothers,
Zero Boys,
Spandau Ballet, Spandau Ballet, Spandau Ballet, Spandau Ballet.
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.