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 Peru 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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the oboe 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 Kas Product to the rap 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 Lyres. All the underground hits.
All The Divine Comedy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Flash Fearless record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 sitar and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Livin' Joy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hardrive,
Vladislav Delay,
The Remains,
Interpol,
Trumans Water,
The Standells,
The Offenders,
Pierre Henry,
Negative Approach,
James White and The Blacks,
Flash Fearless,
Das Ding,
The Trojans,
Niagra,
The Gap Band,
Alton Ellis,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Selecter,
New Order,
Michelle Simonal,
Boz Scaggs,
LL Cool J,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Q65,
Alison Limerick,
The Mummies,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Star Department,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Invisible,
Nik Kershaw,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Spandau Ballet,
F. McDonald,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
E-Dancer,
The Velvet Underground,
The Electric Prunes,
Maleditus Sound,
Terry Callier,
Tom Boy,
Arcadia,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Stooges,
Marc Almond,
Sight & Sound,
The Raincoats,
Traffic Nightmare,
Lou Reed,
Electric Prunes,
8 Eyed Spy,
Bobby Womack,
Flipper,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Big Daddy Kane,
June Days,
Ultra Naté,
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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.