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 Mexico and from Milan.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the organ 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 Bush Tetras to the dance kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Hardrive. All the underground hits.
All Todd Terry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Popol Vuh record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sparks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Heaven 17,
Half Japanese,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Maleditus Sound,
Skriet,
T.S.O.L.,
Joensuu 1685,
Quadrant,
Curtis Mayfield,
Ken Boothe,
Skaos,
Oneida,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Darondo,
New York Dolls,
Colin Newman,
Model 500,
The Count Five,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Kaleidoscope,
John Foxx,
Glenn Branca,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Joey Negro,
The Gun Club,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Rites of Spring,
DJ Sneak,
Bang On A Can,
Groovy Waters,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Warren Ellis,
Barbara Tucker,
Royal Trux,
Jacques Brel,
JFA,
Sugar Minott,
Trumans Water,
Visage,
Lightning Bolt,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Cowsills,
Fugazi,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Shadows of Knight,
10cc,
Loose Ends,
Alison Limerick,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
OOIOO,
Cymande,
Surgeon,
Erasure,
The Doors,
Yaz,
The Monks,
Roxy Music,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.