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 Moldova and from London.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 güiro 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 X-Ray Spex 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 Grey Daturas. All the underground hits.
All Electric Prunes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Agitation Free record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 harpsichord and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sunsets and Hearts record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Don Cherry,
Saccharine Trust,
Henry Cow,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Music Machine,
Eurythmics,
Moby Grape,
Interpol,
Cecil Taylor,
The Last Poets,
Faust,
The Walker Brothers,
Man Eating Sloth,
Minutemen,
Little Man,
The Evens,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Moss Icon,
Scientists,
X-Ray Spex,
Banda Bassotti,
DJ Style,
The Move,
Amazonics,
Sex Pistols,
Fugazi,
The Velvet Underground,
Ice-T,
JFA,
Harpers Bizarre,
Gil Scott Heron,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Skatalites,
Heaven 17,
Organ,
The Golliwogs,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Cameo,
Magazine,
Unrelated Segments,
The Star Department,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Kas Product,
Michelle Simonal,
The Misunderstood,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Girls At Our Best!,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Monolake,
Lee Hazlewood,
Avey Tare,
Nirvana,
Index,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Gang of Four,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
X-101,
Fatback Band,
Rapeman,
The Cramps,
David Axelrod,
Kayak, Kayak, Kayak, Kayak.
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.