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 Ecuador and from Beijing.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Rekid to the dance kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 T. Rex. All the underground hits.
All Mark Hollis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Massinfluence 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter & Gordon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hashim,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Hoover,
Camberwell Now,
Magazine,
The Human League,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Kerri Chandler,
The American Breed,
David Axelrod,
Sparks,
Joe Smooth,
T.S.O.L.,
Accadde A,
The Modern Lovers,
Black Pus,
Aloha Tigers,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Crash Course in Science,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Big Daddy Kane,
Ossler,
Adolescents,
The Toasters,
Young Marble Giants,
The Grass Roots,
Nirvana,
Mr. Review,
8 Eyed Spy,
Fad Gadget,
Wings,
Model 500,
The Sonics,
Agitation Free,
Sonny Sharrock,
Bluetip,
Charles Mingus,
Soul II Soul,
Lyres,
R.M.O.,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Tears for Fears,
Echospace,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Suburban Knight,
Mark Hollis,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Deepchord,
F. McDonald,
June of 44,
Chris & Cosey,
Theoretical Girls,
Drexciya,
The Electric Prunes,
Jeff Mills,
OOIOO,
Bad Manners,
Joy Division,
Public Enemy, Public Enemy, Public Enemy, Public Enemy.
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.