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 Tonga and from Milan.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Icehouse to the rap kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 The Busters. All the underground hits.
All Marc Almond tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Intrusion record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sad Lovers and Giants record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tommy Roe,
Bluetip,
the Soft Cell,
Delon & Dalcan,
Fad Gadget,
Neu!,
Chris & Cosey,
Leonard Cohen,
The Birthday Party,
The American Breed,
Stereo Dub,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Silicon Teens,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Kenny Larkin,
The Gories,
Sonny Sharrock,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Jimmy McGriff,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Dorothy Ashby,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Pulsallama,
Harmonia,
Kas Product,
The Dead C,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Fortunes,
David Bowie,
The Divine Comedy,
Infiniti,
Eli Mardock,
The Doobie Brothers,
Warren Ellis,
Barbara Tucker,
The Gladiators,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
the Germs,
Ralphi Rosario,
Soft Cell,
Agent Orange,
Lower 48,
Ultra Naté,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Skatalites,
The Doors,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Alton Ellis,
Barry Ungar,
Soulsonic Force,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Skriet,
Tubeway Army,
Joyce Sims,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Intrusion, Intrusion, Intrusion, Intrusion.
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.