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 Comoros and from Tokyo.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 It's A Beautiful Day to the grime kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Procol Harum. All the underground hits.
All The Litter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ten City record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delta 5 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kas Product,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Blossom Toes,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Moebius,
Unwound,
David Bowie,
DJ Style,
Lou Reed,
Visage,
Graham Central Station,
Wolf Eyes,
Tomorrow,
Slick Rick,
This Heat,
Tears for Fears,
Gregory Isaacs,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Kerri Chandler,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Nation of Ulysses,
Pulsallama,
Camberwell Now,
Toni Rubio,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Flesh Eaters,
Pantytec,
Bob Dylan,
Minutemen,
Sarah Menescal,
Angry Samoans,
Man Parrish,
Roxy Music,
The Moleskins,
Little Man,
Gil Scott Heron,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Robert Görl,
Faraquet,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Erykah Badu,
The Slackers,
Maurizio,
Jawbox,
Grauzone,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Al Stewart,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Pylon,
Pierre Henry,
The Cure,
Joe Smooth,
The Fortunes,
The Gladiators,
Theoretical Girls,
kango's stein massive,
Hasil Adkins,
The Toasters,
Morten Harket,
The Offenders,
The Skatalites, The Skatalites, The Skatalites, The Skatalites.
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.