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 Benin and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 The Music Machine to the disco 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 The Mojo Men. All the underground hits.
All Ajijia Myrayebe tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tubeway Army 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rhythim Is Rhythim record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Todd Terry,
Marine Girls,
Bootsy Collins,
Oblivians,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Sam Rivers,
Television,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Suicide,
Dennis Brown,
Absolute Body Control,
The Standells,
Section 25,
The Durutti Column,
Spoonie Gee,
Boogie Down Productions,
Soul II Soul,
Sun City Girls,
Black Pus,
The Dave Clark Five,
Thee Headcoats,
Sixth Finger,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Neon Judgement,
Isaac Hayes,
Maurizio,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Black Moon,
48th St. Collective,
Skaos,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Cymande,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Howard Jones,
Eyeless In Gaza,
New Order,
Alison Limerick,
Shuggie Otis,
Amazonics,
Eden Ahbez,
Soft Machine,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Drive Like Jehu,
Mars,
John Foxx,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Radio Birdman,
Niagra,
John Holt,
Robert Wyatt,
David Bowie,
The Young Rascals,
Leonard Cohen,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Scrapy,
Marcia Griffiths,
AZ,
Kevin Saunderson,
Sarah Menescal,
Moss Icon,
Tres Demented,
Subhumans,
Althea and Donna, Althea and Donna, Althea and Donna, Althea and Donna.
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.