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 Samoa and from Taipei.
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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the snare 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 Bobbi Humphrey to the rap 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 The Cowsills. All the underground hits.
All The Barracudas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Michelle Simonal record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 a snare and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Massinfluence record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Maleditus Sound,
Brand Nubian,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Yazoo,
The Motions,
The Dead C,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Lalann,
Brothers Johnson,
Graham Central Station,
Maurizio,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Kenny Larkin,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Banda Bassotti,
Hardrive,
Yusef Lateef,
Albert Ayler,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Model 500,
Matthew Halsall,
Marc Almond,
The Pretty Things,
Silicon Teens,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Agent Orange,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Offenders,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Max Romeo,
UT,
Bobby Womack,
Drexciya,
Frankie Knuckles,
Bobby Sherman,
Delon & Dalcan,
Zapp,
the Soft Cell,
Neil Young,
Joe Finger,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Eric Dolphy,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Zeros,
The Knickerbockers,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Fortunes,
Pylon,
Mr. Review,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Slave,
Gastr Del Sol,
Amazonics,
ABC,
The Star Department,
the Swans,
Easy Going,
Soft Machine,
Darondo,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Japan,
10cc, 10cc, 10cc, 10cc.
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.