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 Laos and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Hardrive to the grime 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 the Sonics. All the underground hits.
All The Grass Roots tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mandrill 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roger Hodgson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
A Certain Ratio,
Kevin Saunderson,
Gang Starr,
The Searchers,
Gang Gang Dance,
Fear,
Deepchord,
Mark Hollis,
Mars,
Quadrant,
Nick Fraelich,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Gang of Four,
Niagra,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Von Mondo,
Unwound,
Ken Boothe,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Moody Blues,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Amazonics,
Boz Scaggs,
Whodini,
Joe Smooth,
The Residents,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Ronan,
Cal Tjader,
The J.B.'s,
Sonic Youth,
Hashim,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Amon Düül,
Johnny Clarke,
Q and Not U,
Chris Corsano,
Camouflage,
The Star Department,
Jacques Brel,
John Foxx,
Iggy Pop,
Loose Ends,
In Retrospect,
Parry Music,
Peter & Gordon,
Alton Ellis,
Maurizio,
Max Romeo,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Khruangbin,
Neu!,
Jandek,
Glenn Branca,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Rod Modell,
Bad Manners,
Faust,
The Motions,
Eric Dolphy,
ABBA, ABBA, ABBA, ABBA.
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.