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 Liechtenstein and from Tehran.
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 1963 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 The Associates to the funk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Blancmange. All the underground hits.
All Hashim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kaleidoscope 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kayak record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Susan Cadogan,
Blossom Toes,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Saints,
the Human League,
Warsaw,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Groovy Waters,
Franke,
Flash Fearless,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Procol Harum,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
New Order,
Hashim,
Mad Mike,
Whodini,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Altered Images,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Knickerbockers,
Joe Smooth,
Public Enemy,
Rod Modell,
Ponytail,
Outsiders,
Rakim,
the Swans,
cv313,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Deakin,
Tom Boy,
Yellowson,
Yusef Lateef,
Excepter,
Black Bananas,
Delta 5,
D'Angelo,
In Retrospect,
Circle Jerks,
Crooked Eye,
Blake Baxter,
China Crisis,
James White and The Blacks,
Monolake,
Ornette Coleman,
Slave,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Negative Approach,
Reuben Wilson,
Vladislav Delay,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Graham Central Station,
Steve Hackett,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Sarah Menescal,
The Mummies,
Jandek,
Rekid,
Japan, Japan, Japan, Japan.
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.