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 Afghanistan and from New York.
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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 1965 at the first Beefheart practice in a loft in Lancaster.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 The Monochrome Set to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud. All the underground hits.
All Rotary Connection tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Durutti Column record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Liliput record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Yaz,
Michelle Simonal,
Sugar Minott,
Graham Central Station,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Oblivians,
Carl Craig,
Crime,
Deakin,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Cymande,
Harmonia,
Camberwell Now,
Byron Stingily,
James White and The Blacks,
Massinfluence,
Matthew Halsall,
Hashim,
Don Cherry,
Joe Smooth,
Kevin Saunderson,
Young Marble Giants,
Barbara Tucker,
Piero Umiliani,
The Monks,
Minutemen,
Cameo,
Circle Jerks,
The Evens,
Country Teasers,
Crispian St. Peters,
Scrapy,
Chrome,
Jeru the Damaja,
LL Cool J,
The Martian,
Todd Terry,
K-Klass,
Jeff Mills,
The Human League,
Lucky Dragons,
Camouflage,
Rosa Yemen,
Mission of Burma,
The Divine Comedy,
Excepter,
Drexciya,
Iggy Pop,
The Durutti Column,
Banda Bassotti,
T.S.O.L.,
The Busters,
The Buckinghams,
Youth Brigade,
Aswad,
Tomorrow,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Oneida,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Davy DMX,
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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.