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 Argentina and from Columbus.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Robert Görl to the funk 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 Clear Light. All the underground hits.
All Q and Not U tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Names 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Danielle Patucci record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sonic Youth,
Unrelated Segments,
The Mummies,
Rosa Yemen,
Derrick May,
X-102,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Deadbeat,
Circle Jerks,
Agitation Free,
T.S.O.L.,
Crash Course in Science,
Wire,
Second Layer,
Scan 7,
The Walker Brothers,
Camberwell Now,
Nils Olav,
Iggy Pop,
Boredoms,
Tomorrow,
Minnie Riperton,
Newcleus,
The Smoke,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Johnny Osbourne,
Niagra,
Roxette,
The Blackbyrds,
Theoretical Girls,
Rites of Spring,
Fugazi,
Qualms,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
A Certain Ratio,
Janne Schatter,
R.M.O.,
PIL,
Radiopuhelimet,
Joey Negro,
Unwound,
Stockholm Monsters,
Nik Kershaw,
E-Dancer,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Scott Walker,
Byron Stingily,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Buzzcocks,
Fat Boys,
LL Cool J,
Gang of Four,
Grauzone,
The Slits,
Inner City,
Bobby Hutcherson,
the Soft Cell,
Motorama,
Quadrant,
The Gap Band,
Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes.
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.