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 Kazakhstan and from Jakarta.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Soulsonic Force to the punk 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 Aloha Tigers. All the underground hits.
All Sound Behaviour tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Red Lorry Yellow Lorry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Association,
The Associates,
Section 25,
The Leaves,
These Immortal Souls,
The Fall,
Buzzcocks,
The Music Machine,
Angry Samoans,
Max Romeo,
Radiohead,
Brothers Johnson,
It's A Beautiful Day,
One Last Wish,
The Techniques,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
EPMD,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
New York Dolls,
Bobby Byrd,
China Crisis,
The Fuzztones,
LL Cool J,
Robert Hood,
Parry Music,
The Doors,
Groovy Waters,
Clear Light,
John Foxx,
Severed Heads,
Rod Modell,
PIL,
Byron Stingily,
The Cramps,
Skarface,
The Barracudas,
Barrington Levy,
Faraquet,
Monolake,
Audionom,
Pylon,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Arcadia,
Porter Ricks,
Pere Ubu,
Mars,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Amon Düül II,
cv313,
L. Decosne,
The Walker Brothers,
The Shadows of Knight,
R.M.O.,
Dead Boys,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
DNA,
The Searchers,
Steve Hackett,
Aural Exciters,
The Slackers,
The Divine Comedy,
F. McDonald, F. McDonald, F. McDonald, F. McDonald.
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.