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 El Salvador and from Columbus.
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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Vaughan Mason & Crew to the techno kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Agent Orange. All the underground hits.
All Hasil Adkins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Curtis Mayfield record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tres Demented record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Freddie Wadling,
Duran Duran,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Barracudas,
Derrick May,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Gabor Szabo,
La Düsseldorf,
Jimmy McGriff,
Malaria!,
Nick Fraelich,
Alphaville,
Prince Buster,
MDC,
Fear,
The New Christs,
Maleditus Sound,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Pierre Henry,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Dave Clark Five,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Clear Light,
OOIOO,
Echospace,
Eli Mardock,
New Order,
Television,
Little Man,
Nation of Ulysses,
Bobby Byrd,
Godley & Creme,
Ralphi Rosario,
Boz Scaggs,
Circle Jerks,
Avey Tare,
Minny Pops,
H. Thieme,
Boogie Down Productions,
Barry Ungar,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Barbara Tucker,
The Last Poets,
Gil Scott Heron,
Harry Pussy,
Scientists,
Soulsonic Force,
Black Flag,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
R.M.O.,
Cheater Slicks,
Main Source,
Oneida,
Ohio Players,
David McCallum,
Grey Daturas,
Marine Girls,
Sonny Sharrock,
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.