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 Turkmenistan and from Manchester.
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 Spokane and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the oboe 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 Sugar Minott to the techno kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Loose Ends. All the underground hits.
All The Gap Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rhythm & Sound 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 snare and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Trumans Water record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Barry Ungar,
Beasts of Bourbon,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Donald Byrd,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Los Fastidios,
Visage,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Ponytail,
World's Most,
The Fortunes,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Monochrome Set,
Symarip,
The Smoke,
The Cure,
Jacob Miller,
Main Source,
Moebius,
The Birthday Party,
Flash Fearless,
Depeche Mode,
Simply Red,
The Move,
Ituana,
Circle Jerks,
Kerri Chandler,
The Durutti Column,
John Lydon,
Technova,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Sonic Youth,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Nico,
Smog,
Pet Shop Boys,
Yazoo,
The Techniques,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Excepter,
Terry Callier,
Cybotron,
The Gun Club,
Pagans,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Oneida,
David Axelrod,
Gabor Szabo,
Neu!,
Steve Hackett,
Wings,
ABC,
Soul Sonic Force,
Hoover,
Freddie Wadling,
The Mummies,
B.T. Express,
Boogie Down Productions,
Peter and Kerry,
Jimmy McGriff,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Newcleus, Newcleus, Newcleus, Newcleus.
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.