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 Honduras and from Taipei.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the güiro 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 Moebius to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Nirvana. All the underground hits.
All Crispy Ambulance tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Amon Düül 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Matthew Bourne record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
MDC,
Marvin Gaye,
In Retrospect,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Tropical Tobacco,
Leonard Cohen,
Maurizio,
Television Personalities,
Roxy Music,
Fat Boys,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Arcadia,
The Toasters,
Danielle Patucci,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Offenders,
Supertramp,
Joensuu 1685,
Marcia Griffiths,
Minutemen,
Suburban Knight,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Pere Ubu,
Black Bananas,
Rekid,
Youth Brigade,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Dorothy Ashby,
Soul II Soul,
Robert Hood,
New Age Steppers,
Pierre Henry,
The Grass Roots,
Lou Christie,
Bobby Womack,
Sonic Youth,
Stereo Dub,
Rhythm & Sound,
Ronan,
Althea and Donna,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Tremeloes,
Reagan Youth,
Grandmaster Flash,
the Sonics,
Brand Nubian,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Joe Smooth,
Darondo,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Sarah Menescal,
OOIOO,
Main Source,
The Smoke,
Joyce Sims,
The United States of America,
K-Klass,
Grey Daturas,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Bootsy Collins,
Charles Mingus,
Dave Gahan,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Eddi Front, Eddi Front, Eddi Front, Eddi Front.
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.