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 Guyana and from Beijing.
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 Tokyo and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the mellotron 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 The Birthday Party to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Matthew Halsall. All the underground hits.
All Barrington Levy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Peter & Gordon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Newcleus,
Rotary Connection,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Amazonics,
Chris Corsano,
Symarip,
Ice-T,
Hardrive,
Connie Case,
The Monochrome Set,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Grandmaster Flash,
Scratch Acid,
Crispy Ambulance,
Pantaleimon,
Marc Almond,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Rod Modell,
The Pretty Things,
Todd Rundgren,
Rapeman,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Marshall Jefferson,
Ituana,
Crime,
Danielle Patucci,
Eden Ahbez,
The Selecter,
Skriet,
Q65,
The Shadows of Knight,
Banda Bassotti,
Jawbox,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Erasure,
Babytalk,
Dave Gahan,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Amon Düül II,
The Doobie Brothers,
Gang Green,
Echospace,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Lou Reed,
Cheater Slicks,
The J.B.'s,
The Birthday Party,
The Golliwogs,
The Trojans,
Spoonie Gee,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
David Bowie,
Lungfish,
Japan,
Moebius,
Kevin Saunderson,
Anakelly,
Pere Ubu,
the Bar-Kays,
Lou Christie, Lou Christie, Lou Christie, Lou Christie.
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.