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 Honduras and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Make Up to the grime 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 Joe Smooth. All the underground hits.
All Thompson Twins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hoover record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Larry & the Blue Notes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eve St. Jones,
Porter Ricks,
The Modern Lovers,
Terry Callier,
The Shadows of Knight,
New Order,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Pet Shop Boys,
the Sonics,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Colin Newman,
Half Japanese,
Ohio Players,
Severed Heads,
Frankie Knuckles,
Kaleidoscope,
Metal Thangz,
Saccharine Trust,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Deepchord,
Rosa Yemen,
Godley & Creme,
Schoolly D,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Average White Band,
Groovy Waters,
Cymande,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Searchers,
The Doors,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Neon Judgement,
Symarip,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Man Eating Sloth,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Mantronix,
Pharoah Sanders,
Erasure,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Moleskins,
Lakeside,
Bootsy Collins,
Rekid,
Terrestrial Tones,
EPMD,
Soul II Soul,
Jawbox,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Move,
Pierre Henry,
Shuggie Otis,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Urselle,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.