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 Bolivia and from Shanghai.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 güiro 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 Tomorrow to the crunk 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 Neil Young. All the underground hits.
All Yazoo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roger Hodgson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 clarinet and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cybotron record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
10cc,
Q and Not U,
Soft Machine,
The Durutti Column,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Suicide,
The Music Machine,
The Skatalites,
Kas Product,
Sound Behaviour,
June Days,
Gabor Szabo,
Model 500,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Dark Day,
Ultimate Spinach,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Hoover,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Wire,
Hardrive,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Ponytail,
Public Image Ltd.,
Chris & Cosey,
MC5,
Rhythm & Sound,
Fear,
Glambeats Corp.,
Bush Tetras,
The Cowsills,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
a-ha,
Gastr Del Sol,
Tim Buckley,
Yellowson,
AZ,
The Zeros,
Idris Muhammad,
The Searchers,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Beau Brummels,
Soul II Soul,
The Smoke,
Skarface,
Jacob Miller,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
DJ Style,
Eric Copeland,
Tommy Roe,
X-101,
The Gap Band,
Juan Atkins,
Agitation Free,
Pagans,
Thompson Twins,
R.M.O.,
The Cure,
Janne Schatter,
The Evens,
Leonard Cohen,
Q65,
Marmalade,
Matthew Bourne, Matthew Bourne, Matthew Bourne, Matthew Bourne.
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.