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 Jordan and from Philadelphia.
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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Beijing.
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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Andrew Hill to the funk 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 Gerry Rafferty. All the underground hits.
All Joy Division tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eddi Front 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Freddie Wadling,
Massinfluence,
The Moody Blues,
Derrick Morgan,
The Knickerbockers,
Anakelly,
Harmonia,
The Dead C,
June of 44,
Little Man,
Clear Light,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Nation of Ulysses,
Grandmaster Flash,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Eli Mardock,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Main Source,
Ronnie Foster,
Bobby Womack,
Mission of Burma,
Fear,
Peter and Kerry,
Alice Coltrane,
Vladislav Delay,
The Detroit Cobras,
Boz Scaggs,
Albert Ayler,
Soulsonic Force,
Ultravox,
Lee Hazlewood,
Graham Central Station,
Faraquet,
The Blues Magoos,
The Residents,
Pantytec,
Bang On A Can,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Cal Tjader,
Matthew Halsall,
Rakim,
Laurel Aitken,
The Searchers,
Charles Mingus,
Rites of Spring,
Make Up,
Ralphi Rosario,
Joey Negro,
Second Layer,
Faust,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Arab on Radar,
Underground Resistance,
Brand Nubian,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Golliwogs,
Piero Umiliani,
Moby Grape,
The Pop Group, The Pop Group, The Pop Group, The Pop Group.
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.