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 Egypt and from Spokane.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Black Sheep to the techno 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 The Gun Club. All the underground hits.
All Shuggie Otis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Jesus and Mary Chain 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 mellotron and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Chocolate Watch Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Searchers,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Sonic Youth,
Theoretical Girls,
Barry Ungar,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Lebanon Hanover,
U.S. Maple,
Essential Logic,
Bush Tetras,
Con Funk Shun,
Maurizio,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
FM Einheit,
Byron Stingily,
Public Enemy,
Patti Smith,
Agitation Free,
Duran Duran,
Sex Pistols,
Grauzone,
Shuggie Otis,
Al Stewart,
Q65,
Sixth Finger,
Sight & Sound,
Pylon,
The Monochrome Set,
T. Rex,
The Toasters,
Japan,
Youth Brigade,
Anthony Braxton,
New Order,
Mo-Dettes,
Eddi Front,
Warsaw,
Section 25,
Nirvana,
Basic Channel,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Boogie Down Productions,
Whodini,
Nick Fraelich,
Peter and Kerry,
Eric Copeland,
Camouflage,
ABC,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Terry Callier,
8 Eyed Spy,
Scratch Acid,
June of 44,
Moebius,
Derrick Morgan,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Radiohead,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Lalo Schifrin,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Sound,
MDC,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.