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 Mumbai.
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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Sound Behaviour to the punk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Siglo XX. All the underground hits.
All Subhumans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Minutemen 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Angry Samoans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kevin Saunderson,
Pulsallama,
Ralphi Rosario,
Kerrie Biddell,
Public Image Ltd.,
Ossler,
Depeche Mode,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Mandrill,
Toni Rubio,
Piero Umiliani,
Essential Logic,
Lou Christie,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Saccharine Trust,
Jeff Lynne,
T.S.O.L.,
Eddi Front,
The Gun Club,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Litter,
Drive Like Jehu,
Brand Nubian,
Lindisfarne,
Ituana,
The Names,
the Bar-Kays,
Black Sheep,
Khruangbin,
Juan Atkins,
Radio Birdman,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Matthew Halsall,
Sixth Finger,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
John Holt,
Reuben Wilson,
Wings,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Roxy Music,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Al Stewart,
Marmalade,
Gichy Dan,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Wolf Eyes,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
H. Thieme,
The Alarm Clocks,
Minutemen,
Man Eating Sloth,
Colin Newman,
Drexciya,
Scratch Acid,
Public Enemy,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
F. McDonald,
Jeff Mills, Jeff Mills, Jeff Mills, Jeff Mills.
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.