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 Haiti and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Groovy Waters 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 A Certain Ratio. All the underground hits.
All Lalann tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every La Düsseldorf record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Minny Pops record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tommy Roe,
Bronski Beat,
Letta Mbulu,
Sound Behaviour,
Andrew Hill,
Dennis Brown,
Yaz,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
DNA,
Steve Hackett,
Bobby Sherman,
James White and The Blacks,
Fad Gadget,
Aaron Thompson,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Sound,
Ultra Naté,
Warren Ellis,
DJ Style,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Donny Hathaway,
The Mojo Men,
Anakelly,
Hasil Adkins,
Maleditus Sound,
Colin Newman,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Lucky Dragons,
Quando Quango,
Matthew Halsall,
Hardrive,
Brothers Johnson,
Terry Callier,
Wasted Youth,
The Star Department,
Ralphi Rosario,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Stiv Bators,
The Moleskins,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Soft Cell,
Marshall Jefferson,
Ken Boothe,
Y Pants,
Barbara Tucker,
The Grass Roots,
Icehouse,
Marc Almond,
Arthur Verocai,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Zeros,
the Human League,
Black Moon,
The Searchers,
Echospace,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Easy Going,
Cluster,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Los Fastidios, Los Fastidios, Los Fastidios, Los Fastidios.
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.