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 Seychelles and from Bologna.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Paris.
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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Marine Girls to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Zapp. All the underground hits.
All Interpol tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Harmonia record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Vladislav Delay record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Invisible,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Joe Smooth,
Danielle Patucci,
Sun City Girls,
Nils Olav,
Mark Hollis,
Visage,
Gang Gang Dance,
Arcadia,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Human League,
The Smiths,
The Young Rascals,
Crash Course in Science,
Circle Jerks,
Avey Tare,
Glenn Branca,
Jacob Miller,
The Neon Judgement,
Michelle Simonal,
Johnny Clarke,
Funkadelic,
Yaz,
Au Pairs,
The Velvet Underground,
Zapp,
Infiniti,
David Axelrod,
Lucky Dragons,
Eddi Front,
The Move,
New Age Steppers,
Black Bananas,
The Litter,
Ten City,
Idris Muhammad,
The Slackers,
The Toasters,
Mars,
The Red Krayola,
Arab on Radar,
Whodini,
Dark Day,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Saccharine Trust,
Sällskapet,
Jerry's Kids,
The Shadows of Knight,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Sugar Minott,
Flipper,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
One Last Wish,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Main Source,
Tubeway Army,
Warsaw,
Hasil Adkins,
Peter & Gordon,
Beasts of Bourbon,
James White and The Blacks, James White and The Blacks, James White and The Blacks, James White and The Blacks.
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.