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 Comoros 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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Portland.
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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Hoover to the grunge kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Shadows of Knight. All the underground hits.
All Eyeless In Gaza tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Yusef Lateef record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 güiro and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Swans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
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,
Royal Trux,
Joey Negro,
John Coltrane,
Kevin Saunderson,
Tubeway Army,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Blake Baxter,
DJ Style,
Jacques Brel,
Icehouse,
Unrelated Segments,
Lightning Bolt,
The Detroit Cobras,
These Immortal Souls,
The Tremeloes,
Prince Buster,
Pagans,
In Retrospect,
The Mummies,
Sight & Sound,
One Last Wish,
The Real Kids,
The Victims,
Brass Construction,
Graham Central Station,
Eden Ahbez,
Laurel Aitken,
Main Source,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Gap Band,
ABC,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Anthony Braxton,
The American Breed,
Soul II Soul,
Lindisfarne,
Supertramp,
Be Bop Deluxe,
D'Angelo,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Marvin Gaye,
Fatback Band,
Robert Görl,
Mars,
Agitation Free,
Tom Boy,
The Mojo Men,
The Gladiators,
Dual Sessions,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Lungfish,
Metal Thangz,
Faust,
Terry Callier,
Jeff Lynne,
Pulsallama,
Country Teasers,
Glambeats Corp.,
Theoretical Girls,
Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew.
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.