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 Nicaragua and from Woodstock.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Houston.
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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Schoolly D to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Joensuu 1685. All the underground hits.
All cv313 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Flamin' Groovies record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 snare and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Essential Logic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kerrie Biddell,
Black Pus,
Johnny Osbourne,
Gang Gang Dance,
Bad Manners,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Livin' Joy,
The Moleskins,
Rotary Connection,
Rosa Yemen,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
The Selecter,
Marvin Gaye,
Max Romeo,
the Swans,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Los Fastidios,
Television,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Deepchord,
The Velvet Underground,
The Tremeloes,
The Standells,
Crime,
R.M.O.,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Qualms,
Kas Product,
Sarah Menescal,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Anakelly,
Marshall Jefferson,
the Normal,
Magma,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Joey Negro,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Banda Bassotti,
Joe Smooth,
Sight & Sound,
Jawbox,
Japan,
Josef K,
Moss Icon,
Minor Threat,
Marc Almond,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Goldenarms,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Von Mondo,
Quantec,
Bang On A Can,
Lower 48,
The Cramps,
DNA,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Swell Maps,
Darondo,
F. McDonald,
The Offenders,
The Monks,
Alison Limerick, Alison Limerick, Alison Limerick, Alison Limerick.
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.