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 Thailand and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1960 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1970 at the first Onyeabor practice in a loft in Enugu.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Soft Machine to the grunge kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Eurythmics. All the underground hits.
All Vaughan Mason & Crew tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fatback Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Curtis Mayfield record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ronnie Foster,
Alphaville,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Wally Richardson,
Echospace,
Dual Sessions,
Ituana,
Nas,
Kerri Chandler,
Dave Gahan,
The Cure,
Lalann,
Donny Hathaway,
Pagans,
Boredoms,
Cymande,
June Days,
The Monks,
Technova,
Harmonia,
Jerry's Kids,
Lightning Bolt,
Juan Atkins,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Mark Hollis,
Lungfish,
Rosa Yemen,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
David Bowie,
Dennis Brown,
Howard Jones,
Girls At Our Best!,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Cal Tjader,
Roger Hodgson,
Todd Terry,
Q65,
Davy DMX,
Q and Not U,
D'Angelo,
Audionom,
The Smiths,
Eden Ahbez,
Hoover,
The Angels of Light,
Agent Orange,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Sarah Menescal,
Mission of Burma,
T.S.O.L.,
Moby Grape,
Surgeon,
The Misunderstood,
The Fortunes,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Make Up,
The Sonics,
Pylon,
Crispy Ambulance,
Lou Christie, Lou Christie, Lou Christie, Lou Christie.
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.