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 Botswana and from Glasgow.
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 1961 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Edmonton.
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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the marimba 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 Vainqueur to the disco 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 Yaz. All the underground hits.
All The Move tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bob Dylan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Divine Comedy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Minnie Riperton,
Gichy Dan,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Junior Murvin,
Graham Central Station,
Country Teasers,
Inner City,
Accadde A,
Matthew Halsall,
Pet Shop Boys,
In Retrospect,
One Last Wish,
Con Funk Shun,
The Tremeloes,
Eddi Front,
Skarface,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Hot Snakes,
Subhumans,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Dark Day,
Glenn Branca,
Minny Pops,
The Cowsills,
Chrome,
The Barracudas,
Rhythm & Sound,
Amon Düül,
PIL,
Peter and Kerry,
Carl Craig,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Kurtis Blow,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Young Rascals,
Stetsasonic,
Deakin,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Bobby Sherman,
Trumans Water,
Infiniti,
CMW,
Oblivians,
ABBA,
Judy Mowatt,
Model 500,
Zero Boys,
The Angels of Light,
The New Christs,
Erykah Badu,
Royal Trux,
Pole,
The Beau Brummels,
Fad Gadget,
Silicon Teens,
Urselle,
Goldenarms,
Gang of Four,
Jandek, Jandek, Jandek, Jandek.
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.