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 Monaco and from Jakarta.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the 808 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 Tres Demented to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Arab on Radar. All the underground hits.
All One Last Wish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Average White Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sarah Menescal 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?
Jacob Miller,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Rotary Connection,
Reuben Wilson,
Quadrant,
John Foxx,
Sarah Menescal,
Supertramp,
CMW,
the Soft Cell,
Harpers Bizarre,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The New Christs,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Johnny Clarke,
Moebius,
Sällskapet,
Infiniti,
Public Enemy,
Dave Gahan,
Buzzcocks,
Leonard Cohen,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Raincoats,
The Zeros,
kango's stein massive,
Rakim,
U.S. Maple,
Parry Music,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Aswad,
Visage,
Lower 48,
Bobby Womack,
Fugazi,
John Lydon,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Motions,
Average White Band,
Tres Demented,
Brand Nubian,
Inner City,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Last Poets,
Yellowson,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Japan,
Duran Duran,
Pere Ubu,
Tim Buckley,
Silicon Teens,
Panda Bear,
The Buckinghams,
Bill Wells,
Alison Limerick,
Whodini,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Minny Pops,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Von Mondo,
James Chance & The Contortions, James Chance & The Contortions, James Chance & The Contortions, James Chance & The Contortions.
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.