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 Micronesia and from Philadelphia.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Cameo to the dance kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Slick Rick. All the underground hits.
All Supertramp tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alice Coltrane record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 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 Kayak record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Moleskins,
Terry Callier,
Soft Machine,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Eric B and Rakim,
Crash Course in Science,
Fifty Foot Hose,
a-ha,
Pantytec,
Circle Jerks,
The Leaves,
the Soft Cell,
Amazonics,
The Music Machine,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
David Bowie,
Charles Mingus,
Ultra Naté,
Monolake,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Isaac Hayes,
The Misunderstood,
Anakelly,
Basic Channel,
Faraquet,
Cymande,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Lalann,
Juan Atkins,
The Residents,
Be Bop Deluxe,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Dead Boys,
Mantronix,
New Order,
John Holt,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Curtis Mayfield,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Alton Ellis,
John Coltrane,
Magazine,
Absolute Body Control,
The Divine Comedy,
Model 500,
Traffic Nightmare,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Black Dice,
Can,
Sonny Sharrock,
Matthew Halsall,
Warren Ellis,
Massinfluence,
China Crisis,
Parry Music,
X-102,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Robert Wyatt,
Unrelated Segments,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.