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 Morocco 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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Calgary.
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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the oboe 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 Neil Young to the rock kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Black Sheep. All the underground hits.
All David McCallum tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Audionom record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 sitar and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Icehouse record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Soft Machine,
Lyres,
Unwound,
Camouflage,
Soul II Soul,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Model 500,
A Certain Ratio,
Zapp,
Grandmaster Flash,
La Düsseldorf,
Oblivians,
Basic Channel,
The Grass Roots,
Ludus,
Anthony Braxton,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Technova,
Faust,
Black Moon,
Gang Green,
Crime,
Jerry's Kids,
Ultravox,
Moebius,
Nils Olav,
Gerry Rafferty,
Babytalk,
The Walker Brothers,
The Beau Brummels,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Evens,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Maleditus Sound,
Idris Muhammad,
Mary Jane Girls,
Graham Central Station,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Inner City,
Fad Gadget,
Country Teasers,
Pulsallama,
Flamin' Groovies,
Japan,
Eric Copeland,
Aswad,
Prince Buster,
Fear,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Mars,
Gang Gang Dance,
New Order,
Von Mondo,
Arab on Radar,
Johnny Clarke,
Marc Almond,
Gong,
Terrestrial Tones,
Alice Coltrane,
DJ Sneak,
Jandek,
ABC,
Eli Mardock, Eli Mardock, Eli Mardock, Eli Mardock.
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.