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 Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 Manchester and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Essential Logic to the funk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 OOIOO. All the underground hits.
All The Buckinghams tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Donny Hathaway record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Vainqueur record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Andrew Hill,
Bizarre Inc.,
Roxette,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Zeros,
The Fall,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
L. Decosne,
Donald Byrd,
Slick Rick,
Carl Craig,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Dorothy Ashby,
Crispy Ambulance,
Television,
Gang Starr,
Hardrive,
The Fuzztones,
Japan,
The Fugs,
Johnny Clarke,
Eric Dolphy,
Howard Jones,
D'Angelo,
DNA,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Radiohead,
Crime,
Warren Ellis,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Davy DMX,
Rites of Spring,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Kevin Saunderson,
OOIOO,
Crooked Eye,
Organ,
Neil Young,
Prince Buster,
Reagan Youth,
Lalo Schifrin,
Blake Baxter,
Blossom Toes,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
A Certain Ratio,
The Litter,
The Divine Comedy,
Marc Almond,
The Smiths,
Zapp,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Yaz,
Pharoah Sanders,
Symarip,
Donny Hathaway,
Tom Boy,
Crash Course in Science,
Judy Mowatt,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch.
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.