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 Swaziland and from Bremen.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Main Source to the grunge 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 Minutemen. All the underground hits.
All Fatback Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Interpol 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lalo Schifrin record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sound Behaviour,
Zapp,
Johnny Clarke,
Eddi Front,
Wasted Youth,
Tomorrow,
La Düsseldorf,
The Busters,
Toni Rubio,
R.M.O.,
Ossler,
The Fuzztones,
Interpol,
The Smoke,
K-Klass,
Marine Girls,
L. Decosne,
Jimmy McGriff,
Visage,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Sex Pistols,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
DJ Sneak,
The Slits,
Big Daddy Kane,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Cowsills,
Lalo Schifrin,
Lyres,
Yusef Lateef,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Ice-T,
Nirvana,
Scion,
Sällskapet,
Swans,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Boredoms,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Accadde A,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Divine Comedy,
Pierre Henry,
Mission of Burma,
Delta 5,
Bobby Womack,
The Durutti Column,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Audionom,
the Fania All-Stars,
Sugar Minott,
Vladislav Delay,
Sight & Sound,
Delon & Dalcan,
Goldenarms,
Newcleus,
PIL,
Black Bananas,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux.
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.