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 Iraq and from Stockholm.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 marimba 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 L. Decosne to the jazz 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 The Motions. All the underground hits.
All K-Klass tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Anakelly 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 guitar and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ponytail record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Piero Umiliani,
Sun Ra,
Jimmy McGriff,
UT,
Henry Cow,
Chris Corsano,
Tomorrow,
Fugazi,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Grass Roots,
Sällskapet,
Davy DMX,
The Real Kids,
Eric Copeland,
Hoover,
Mandrill,
The Zeros,
Marmalade,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Fire Engines,
the Soft Cell,
Schoolly D,
Arthur Verocai,
Donny Hathaway,
Jandek,
Prince Buster,
Peter & Gordon,
OOIOO,
China Crisis,
The Kinks,
John Lydon,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Parry Music,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Neil Young,
The Smiths,
Sight & Sound,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Masters at Work,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Al Stewart,
Gichy Dan,
Aaron Thompson,
the Human League,
Joe Smooth,
Newcleus,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Janne Schatter,
Hot Snakes,
Tim Buckley,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Martian,
Unwound,
K-Klass,
Soft Machine,
The Misunderstood,
One Last Wish,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Colin Newman,
U.S. Maple,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.