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 Barbados and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 güiro 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 Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz to the punk 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 Bauhaus. All the underground hits.
All Young Marble Giants tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Negative Approach 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Buckinghams record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marc Almond,
Cal Tjader,
Jacob Miller,
Tears for Fears,
The Trojans,
Joyce Sims,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Graham Central Station,
Brick,
Terry Callier,
MC5,
The Smiths,
Outsiders,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Jeff Lynne,
Crooked Eye,
Essential Logic,
Quando Quango,
The Skatalites,
Marmalade,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The American Breed,
Section 25,
A Certain Ratio,
The Red Krayola,
Ronnie Foster,
Arab on Radar,
Goldenarms,
the Swans,
Donny Hathaway,
Todd Rundgren,
Dave Gahan,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
D'Angelo,
Sparks,
Sam Rivers,
Patti Smith,
Bush Tetras,
Stockholm Monsters,
10cc,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Grey Daturas,
Boogie Down Productions,
Dennis Brown,
The Fuzztones,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Black Dice,
Technova,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Bizarre Inc.,
Roxy Music,
Matthew Bourne,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Clear Light,
Throbbing Gristle,
Brothers Johnson,
Harpers Bizarre,
Livin' Joy,
Gong,
Bauhaus,
The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Jesus and Mary Chain.
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.