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 Uzbekistan and from Calgary.
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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Underground Resistance to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 New Age Steppers. All the underground hits.
All The Gories tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Pop Group 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Boz Scaggs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soft Cell,
The Red Krayola,
The J.B.'s,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Japan,
The Fall,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Peter & Gordon,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Von Mondo,
The Moody Blues,
Rotary Connection,
The Searchers,
Zero Boys,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Young Marble Giants,
Arcadia,
Vainqueur,
The Barracudas,
Moss Icon,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Gladiators,
Aswad,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Erasure,
Magma,
Michelle Simonal,
The Doors,
Donny Hathaway,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Flash Fearless,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Happenings,
Radiopuhelimet,
Boogie Down Productions,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Detroit Cobras,
Marvin Gaye,
Ralphi Rosario,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Evens,
Hot Snakes,
Slave,
The Stooges,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Mo-Dettes,
the Bar-Kays,
Anakelly,
kango's stein massive,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Last Poets,
Lungfish,
X-102,
Althea and Donna,
Tomorrow,
Isaac Hayes,
Joe Smooth,
Bauhaus,
Basic Channel, Basic Channel, Basic Channel, Basic Channel.
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.