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 Austria and from Spokane.
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 Tehran and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Bobby Sherman to the punk 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 DeepChord presents Echospace. All the underground hits.
All Fad Gadget tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Robert Görl 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Leaves record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Mighty Diamonds,
Sister Nancy,
Grandmaster Flash,
PIL,
Kurtis Blow,
Franke,
Erykah Badu,
Jeff Lynne,
Crime,
Main Source,
The Evens,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Minutemen,
Hashim,
Peter and Kerry,
The Mummies,
David McCallum,
Johnny Osbourne,
Wally Richardson,
Banda Bassotti,
Howard Jones,
Lakeside,
Animal Collective,
The Mojo Men,
JFA,
Ituana,
Gerry Rafferty,
Sound Behaviour,
Sixth Finger,
Quantec,
Technova,
Drive Like Jehu,
Angry Samoans,
The American Breed,
Hasil Adkins,
Ponytail,
The Stooges,
Stiv Bators,
The Fall,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Sugar Minott,
Albert Ayler,
Joensuu 1685,
The Dave Clark Five,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Yusef Lateef,
Infiniti,
Morten Harket,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Glenn Branca,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Gabor Szabo,
June of 44,
Parry Music,
Jeff Mills,
Mars,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Davy DMX,
Letta Mbulu,
Henry Cow,
Fatback Band,
Sparks,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot.
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.