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 Fiji and from Manchester.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 808 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 Saccharine Trust to the grime kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 The Monochrome Set. All the underground hits.
All Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Electric Prunes 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mission of Burma record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Gun Club,
Radiohead,
Hot Snakes,
Livin' Joy,
Easy Going,
Chris Corsano,
Joensuu 1685,
Mars,
Bizarre Inc.,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Red Krayola,
Bootsy Collins,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Panda Bear,
Nation of Ulysses,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Janne Schatter,
The Last Poets,
The Star Department,
Faraquet,
F. McDonald,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Vogues,
The Gories,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Curtis Mayfield,
Blossom Toes,
Second Layer,
E-Dancer,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
James White and The Blacks,
Mission of Burma,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Flipper,
The Electric Prunes,
Derrick Morgan,
Zero Boys,
The Human League,
The Fugs,
Max Romeo,
Subhumans,
Smog,
Jawbox,
Soft Cell,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Birthday Party,
Patti Smith,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Animal Collective,
Scientists,
Dennis Brown,
Black Moon,
Pulsallama,
Jeru the Damaja,
Eli Mardock,
Los Fastidios,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Fat Boys,
Kenny Larkin, Kenny Larkin, Kenny Larkin, Kenny Larkin.
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.