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 Bosnia Herzegovina and from Delhi.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 David Axelrod to the grime kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Johnny Osbourne. All the underground hits.
All Jimmy McGriff tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Happenings record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Terry Callier record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sällskapet,
Don Cherry,
Dawn Penn,
Ohio Players,
Pylon,
Guru Guru,
Ponytail,
FM Einheit,
The Real Kids,
Pantaleimon,
The Monks,
Rotary Connection,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Gabor Szabo,
Marshall Jefferson,
Alice Coltrane,
The Durutti Column,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Rosa Yemen,
Soul Sonic Force,
Fluxion,
Los Fastidios,
Faust,
Tubeway Army,
Girls At Our Best!,
Vainqueur,
John Foxx,
Roxette,
Rakim,
Prince Buster,
Simply Red,
Sister Nancy,
Lakeside,
U.S. Maple,
X-Ray Spex,
Q65,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Dead Boys,
Radio Birdman,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Lebanon Hanover,
Liliput,
Rekid,
Derrick May,
Blossom Toes,
Anthony Braxton,
Bill Wells,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Names,
The Associates,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Khruangbin,
Kool Moe Dee,
Television,
Subhumans,
David McCallum,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Roxy Music,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Grey Daturas,
The Gladiators,
Al Stewart,
A Flock of Seagulls, A Flock of Seagulls, A Flock of Seagulls, A Flock of Seagulls.
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.