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 Germany and from Mumbai.
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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the theremin 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 The Fortunes to the funk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 JFA. All the underground hits.
All Michelle Simonal tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soul II Soul 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Groovy Waters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Essential Logic,
The Offenders,
Tom Boy,
The Motions,
Ultra Naté,
Soul II Soul,
The Move,
Talk Talk,
Japan,
Magma,
Bauhaus,
Adolescents,
Black Pus,
F. McDonald,
The Busters,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Unwound,
Dual Sessions,
The Standells,
Jacob Miller,
Robert Wyatt,
Al Stewart,
Buzzcocks,
D'Angelo,
Brass Construction,
Maurizio,
Junior Murvin,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Hoover,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Moss Icon,
Aloha Tigers,
The Cowsills,
Black Bananas,
Moebius,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Quando Quango,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Nick Fraelich,
A Certain Ratio,
Stiv Bators,
Reagan Youth,
AZ,
Y Pants,
The Searchers,
Dennis Brown,
Erasure,
Arcadia,
Gong,
Bobby Womack,
Motorama,
The Monochrome Set,
Marc Almond,
The Dirtbombs,
Main Source,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
cv313,
The Raincoats,
Nas,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Johnny Osbourne,
Yellowson,
Pantytec, Pantytec, Pantytec, Pantytec.
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.