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 Pakistan and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 sitar 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 Ponytail to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Pole. All the underground hits.
All Ornette Coleman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Techniques record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun Ra Arkestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joe Smooth,
La Düsseldorf,
Massinfluence,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Isaac Hayes,
Black Pus,
Buzzcocks,
Duran Duran,
Scan 7,
The Busters,
Silicon Teens,
Liliput,
Pylon,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Pretty Things,
cv313,
Sam Rivers,
Trumans Water,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Guru Guru,
Soul Sonic Force,
DJ Sneak,
Robert Hood,
The Young Rascals,
John Foxx,
Roxy Music,
The Last Poets,
Brothers Johnson,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Avey Tare,
The Blackbyrds,
L. Decosne,
Quadrant,
Flash Fearless,
Sarah Menescal,
The Selecter,
UT,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Spandau Ballet,
Das Ding,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Donald Byrd,
Jimmy McGriff,
Rufus Thomas,
The Blues Magoos,
Rekid,
Letta Mbulu,
Colin Newman,
Mandrill,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Ultravox,
New Order,
Quando Quango,
Todd Rundgren,
Hardrive,
Boz Scaggs,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Kerrie Biddell,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Surgeon,
Panda Bear,
Porter Ricks, Porter Ricks, Porter Ricks, Porter Ricks.
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.