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 Marshall Islands and from Hong Kong.
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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 James Chance & The Contortions to the punk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Joe Smooth. All the underground hits.
All Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Chris Corsano record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a DNA record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Suburban Knight,
Morten Harket,
New Age Steppers,
Fluxion,
Brand Nubian,
Flipper,
Reuben Wilson,
Wire,
Glenn Branca,
Urselle,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Vogues,
The Doors,
Moby Grape,
Flamin' Groovies,
Tres Demented,
The American Breed,
Technova,
The Stooges,
Hashim,
Brass Construction,
Con Funk Shun,
Albert Ayler,
Roger Hodgson,
Mo-Dettes,
Theoretical Girls,
Idris Muhammad,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Fat Boys,
Jerry's Kids,
Camberwell Now,
Al Stewart,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
DJ Style,
Swans,
The Selecter,
Yusef Lateef,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
10cc,
Steve Hackett,
Kenny Larkin,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Mantronix,
MC5,
Pere Ubu,
Audionom,
the Normal,
Davy DMX,
Gregory Isaacs,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Sisters of Mercy,
MDC,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Byron Stingily,
Crispy Ambulance,
Nils Olav,
Nik Kershaw,
Funkadelic, Funkadelic, Funkadelic, Funkadelic.
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.