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 Korea South and from Edmonton.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel 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 Average White Band. All the underground hits.
All Ultramagnetic MC's tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Suicide 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bobby Byrd,
Aaron Thompson,
Hasil Adkins,
The Fuzztones,
Underground Resistance,
Oblivians,
Gabor Szabo,
Lou Christie,
Prince Buster,
Quando Quango,
The Tremeloes,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Flesh Eaters,
Cheater Slicks,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Los Fastidios,
Pantaleimon,
Moebius,
Parry Music,
Y Pants,
Chris & Cosey,
New York Dolls,
Hot Snakes,
Tommy Roe,
Urselle,
Matthew Bourne,
The Slits,
Accadde A,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Suburban Knight,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Gichy Dan,
China Crisis,
Gastr Del Sol,
Angry Samoans,
Maleditus Sound,
Aural Exciters,
Can,
Popol Vuh,
Harry Pussy,
Funkadelic,
Aloha Tigers,
Gang Starr,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Swans,
Shuggie Otis,
London Community Gospel Choir,
KRS-One,
Swell Maps,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Stooges,
Sonic Youth,
Lou Reed,
The Index,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Buckinghams,
Rites of Spring,
Main Source,
Alton Ellis, Alton Ellis, Alton Ellis, Alton Ellis.
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.