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 Ivory Coast and from Edmonton.
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 1966 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Hot Snakes to the grime kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Jeff Mills. All the underground hits.
All Kool Moe Dee tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Moby Grape record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter & Gordon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lebanon Hanover,
Radiohead,
Drive Like Jehu,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Hashim,
Mandrill,
Accadde A,
The Pop Group,
The Gories,
Lucky Dragons,
the Germs,
Janne Schatter,
Ohio Players,
48th St. Collective,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
the Bar-Kays,
Fluxion,
The Gladiators,
Television,
Graham Central Station,
Oneida,
FM Einheit,
Wolf Eyes,
PIL,
The Beau Brummels,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Maurizio,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Angels of Light,
Symarip,
Massinfluence,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Blancmange,
The Mummies,
Make Up,
Visage,
Suicide,
Junior Murvin,
Angry Samoans,
Unwound,
Dennis Brown,
Tim Buckley,
Don Cherry,
Jimmy McGriff,
Infiniti,
Monolake,
Crash Course in Science,
Darondo,
The Raincoats,
Lyres,
the Slits,
The Associates,
The Litter,
Tres Demented,
Kurtis Blow,
Brass Construction,
Radiopuhelimet,
Sixth Finger,
Black Sheep,
New Order,
Gang Gang Dance,
Harmonia,
Zero Boys,
Marshall Jefferson, Marshall Jefferson, Marshall Jefferson, Marshall Jefferson.
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.