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 Ukraine and from Taipei.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Warren Ellis to the dance 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 Black Flag. All the underground hits.
All Boredoms tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Country Teasers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Subhumans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Deadbeat,
Johnny Clarke,
Main Source,
Darondo,
Piero Umiliani,
The Names,
The Cure,
Albert Ayler,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Lalo Schifrin,
The American Breed,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Toasters,
Eddi Front,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Vainqueur,
Thee Headcoats,
Schoolly D,
Siglo XX,
Silicon Teens,
Quando Quango,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
K-Klass,
Scratch Acid,
The Blues Magoos,
Yazoo,
E-Dancer,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Anthony Braxton,
Deakin,
John Foxx,
The Smoke,
Jandek,
Dark Day,
The Vogues,
Tropical Tobacco,
Glambeats Corp.,
Young Marble Giants,
Mary Jane Girls,
Tommy Roe,
Scion,
Desert Stars,
the Bar-Kays,
Accadde A,
Ralphi Rosario,
Althea and Donna,
Chrome,
The Doobie Brothers,
KRS-One,
Steve Hackett,
The Saints,
Radiopuhelimet,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Cybotron,
Tomorrow,
James Chance & The Contortions,
La Düsseldorf,
Faraquet,
JFA,
Angry Samoans,
Massinfluence,
New Order, New Order, New Order, New Order.
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.