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 Maldives and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Flamin' Groovies to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 10cc. All the underground hits.
All Ultimate Spinach tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Underground Resistance 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DJ Sneak,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Joe Smooth,
The Skatalites,
Agitation Free,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Bob Dylan,
Matthew Bourne,
Joe Finger,
Vainqueur,
Ten City,
Tubeway Army,
Sonic Youth,
Alison Limerick,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Alice Coltrane,
The Count Five,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Stereo Dub,
Cheater Slicks,
Rites of Spring,
The Kinks,
the Slits,
Gang Green,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Cramps,
Franke,
Clear Light,
Soulsonic Force,
Oneida,
Stetsasonic,
Quando Quango,
Joey Negro,
Cecil Taylor,
H. Thieme,
Visage,
Young Marble Giants,
Dave Gahan,
Scientists,
Urselle,
Rufus Thomas,
kango's stein massive,
The Mojo Men,
The Vogues,
Ken Boothe,
Kurtis Blow,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Q65,
Bluetip,
Public Image Ltd.,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Ronan,
Icehouse,
Hoover,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Joy Division,
Eric B and Rakim,
Gerry Rafferty,
Colin Newman,
PIL, PIL, PIL, PIL.
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.