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 Andorra and from Manchester.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Basic Channel to the rock 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 This Heat. All the underground hits.
All Gary Puckett & The Union Gap tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Leaves 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lower 48 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?
Jawbox,
Sam Rivers,
The Five Americans,
Gastr Del Sol,
Matthew Halsall,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Television Personalities,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Invisible,
Johnny Clarke,
Silicon Teens,
Frankie Knuckles,
Con Funk Shun,
Barrington Levy,
Avey Tare,
the Human League,
A Certain Ratio,
Eve St. Jones,
Marmalade,
Throbbing Gristle,
James White and The Blacks,
Fad Gadget,
Robert Wyatt,
Bootsy Collins,
Bang On A Can,
Smog,
Motorama,
a-ha,
Rotary Connection,
Gerry Rafferty,
Yazoo,
John Foxx,
MC5,
The Pop Group,
Agent Orange,
JFA,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Remains,
Minny Pops,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Gang Green,
Delta 5,
Chrome,
The Sisters of Mercy,
the Fania All-Stars,
Lindisfarne,
David Bowie,
Joey Negro,
Wings,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Aswad,
Crispian St. Peters,
David Axelrod,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Isaac Hayes,
Todd Rundgren,
Vladislav Delay,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra.
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.