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 Portugal and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1970 at the first Onyeabor practice in a loft in Enugu.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Youth Brigade to the electroclash 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 Bauhaus. All the underground hits.
All Boogie Down Productions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every James White and The Blacks 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Q and Not U record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Angry Samoans,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Kas Product,
Ossler,
John Foxx,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Janne Schatter,
Sam Rivers,
The Evens,
Warsaw,
Rakim,
Liliput,
Bizarre Inc.,
Lightning Bolt,
Quantec,
Vladislav Delay,
Qualms,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Gun Club,
Glenn Branca,
Dawn Penn,
Wolf Eyes,
Albert Ayler,
T.S.O.L.,
Metal Thangz,
Maurizio,
The Misunderstood,
Robert Görl,
Zapp,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Minor Threat,
Matthew Bourne,
Silicon Teens,
The Durutti Column,
Alphaville,
Toni Rubio,
Jacob Miller,
Lindisfarne,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Nik Kershaw,
H. Thieme,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Quadrant,
Suburban Knight,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Raincoats,
Nirvana,
Buzzcocks,
Electric Prunes,
DJ Style,
Joe Smooth,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Ituana,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Grandmaster Flash,
Faraquet,
Sun Ra,
Althea and Donna,
Sex Pistols, Sex Pistols, Sex Pistols, Sex Pistols.
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.