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 Thailand and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise show in London.
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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1970 at the first Onyeabor practice in a loft in Enugu.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 China Crisis. All the underground hits.
All Agitation Free tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Colin Newman record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dorothy Ashby record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Susan Cadogan,
Tim Buckley,
Minny Pops,
The Sound,
The Velvet Underground,
The Mummies,
Underground Resistance,
Desert Stars,
The Mojo Men,
China Crisis,
Soul Sonic Force,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Chris Corsano,
Los Fastidios,
Charles Mingus,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Slits,
T. Rex,
Parry Music,
Blake Baxter,
The Saints,
Radiopuhelimet,
Matthew Halsall,
John Foxx,
Qualms,
Rhythm & Sound,
Frankie Knuckles,
Fela Kuti,
Absolute Body Control,
Rites of Spring,
Television Personalities,
Glambeats Corp.,
Dual Sessions,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Donny Hathaway,
ABC,
Theoretical Girls,
Erykah Badu,
Bill Wells,
These Immortal Souls,
Young Marble Giants,
Jeru the Damaja,
Agent Orange,
The Alarm Clocks,
Ice-T,
Jerry's Kids,
the Normal,
Deadbeat,
Gabor Szabo,
Judy Mowatt,
Swell Maps,
U.S. Maple,
Quantec,
Von Mondo,
Thompson Twins,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Marshall Jefferson,
Bobby Sherman,
a-ha,
Be Bop Deluxe, Be Bop Deluxe, Be Bop Deluxe, Be Bop Deluxe.
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.