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 Bhutan and from Lyon.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Woodstock.
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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Ultimate Spinach to the grime 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 Fat Boys. All the underground hits.
All Roger Hodgson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every David Axelrod record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Hoover record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Boogie Down Productions,
Cecil Taylor,
Brand Nubian,
Juan Atkins,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
John Foxx,
Franke,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Dave Clark Five,
Archie Shepp,
Throbbing Gristle,
Qualms,
John Cale,
Gang Green,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Cramps,
the Normal,
The Barracudas,
Technova,
Kaleidoscope,
Bluetip,
Second Layer,
The Motions,
Wasted Youth,
Mad Mike,
Reuben Wilson,
Q65,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Techniques,
Nas,
The Names,
The Evens,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Fad Gadget,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Marine Girls,
Junior Murvin,
Peter & Gordon,
Lebanon Hanover,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Swell Maps,
Fluxion,
Barrington Levy,
Tommy Roe,
Parry Music,
Motorama,
The Busters,
Gil Scott Heron,
Chris Corsano,
Electric Prunes,
Eve St. Jones,
Procol Harum,
Jawbox,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Cowsills,
Warsaw,
Echospace,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Gladiators, The Gladiators, The Gladiators, The Gladiators.
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.