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 Equatorial Guinea and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Calgary.
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 1970 at the first Onyeabor practice in a loft in Enugu.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Victims to the dance 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 Johnny Clarke. All the underground hits.
All Quando Quango tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Notorious Big And Bone Thugs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aural Exciters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Newcleus,
Al Stewart,
Sun Ra,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Joensuu 1685,
Arthur Verocai,
Harpers Bizarre,
Susan Cadogan,
Joy Division,
Audionom,
Roger Hodgson,
Inner City,
Kerrie Biddell,
Sandy B,
Wings,
Radio Birdman,
Cameo,
Mark Hollis,
Youth Brigade,
Section 25,
Gang of Four,
Boogie Down Productions,
Main Source,
Pet Shop Boys,
Quadrant,
Public Enemy,
Deepchord,
Darondo,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Simply Red,
The Seeds,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Qualms,
Eurythmics,
Rufus Thomas,
Godley & Creme,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Zapp,
Camberwell Now,
Amon Düül,
The Fall,
Neu!,
Silicon Teens,
Sugar Minott,
Unwound,
Gastr Del Sol,
Kevin Saunderson,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
the Sonics,
Lyres,
James White and The Blacks,
Gil Scott Heron,
Infiniti,
Easy Going,
Radiohead,
Curtis Mayfield,
Alison Limerick,
Peter & Gordon,
Banda Bassotti,
Lucky Dragons, Lucky Dragons, Lucky Dragons, Lucky Dragons.
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.