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 Nigeria 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 1962 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Essential Logic to the funk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 PIL. All the underground hits.
All Ken Boothe tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grey Daturas record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Swans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Funky Four + One,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Monks,
Bauhaus,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Roger Hodgson,
Stereo Dub,
Wings,
Qualms,
Nas,
Index,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Lou Reed,
Flipper,
Audionom,
Arcadia,
Hoover,
Bronski Beat,
The Cure,
Second Layer,
Intrusion,
Kerri Chandler,
Dennis Brown,
The New Christs,
Zapp,
Moebius,
The Angels of Light,
Scott Walker,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
the Human League,
The Fortunes,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Peter & Gordon,
Patti Smith,
The Electric Prunes,
Metal Thangz,
Porter Ricks,
Mark Hollis,
Bobby Byrd,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Brand Nubian,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Darondo,
Ornette Coleman,
Dark Day,
Kevin Saunderson,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Kinks,
Goldenarms,
DJ Style,
The Cramps,
Whodini,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Marvin Gaye,
Negative Approach,
Reagan Youth,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The United States of America,
Kerrie Biddell,
Quantec,
T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L..
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.