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 Gambia and from Edmonton.
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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Cairo.
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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Kayak to the jazz kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Warren Ellis. All the underground hits.
All Scan 7 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Audionom record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Moody Blues record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kaleidoscope,
Delta 5,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Bauhaus,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Clear Light,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Das Ding,
Avey Tare,
Rosa Yemen,
Skarface,
The Vogues,
Mark Hollis,
Ralphi Rosario,
Gregory Isaacs,
Soft Machine,
The Gladiators,
Max Romeo,
Byron Stingily,
Absolute Body Control,
The Knickerbockers,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Audionom,
Electric Prunes,
The Wake,
Roxette,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Crooked Eye,
MDC,
Althea and Donna,
Black Sheep,
Main Source,
Man Parrish,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Stetsasonic,
Easy Going,
Flamin' Groovies,
Isaac Hayes,
Marine Girls,
Lindisfarne,
Johnny Clarke,
Ten City,
The Dead C,
The Beau Brummels,
Quadrant,
Mission of Burma,
Soul II Soul,
Los Fastidios,
Shuggie Otis,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Zero Boys,
Gang Gang Dance,
Derrick Morgan,
Slave,
Kurtis Blow,
Bobby Sherman,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Art Ensemble Of Chicago.
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.