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 Eritrea and from Delhi.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Brass Construction to the electroclash 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 Parry Music. All the underground hits.
All Fugazi tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Amon Düül II record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 spring reverb and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gregory Isaacs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sonny Sharrock,
Y Pants,
Parry Music,
Young Marble Giants,
The Happenings,
Matthew Halsall,
Eric B and Rakim,
Isaac Hayes,
Barclay James Harvest,
Tears for Fears,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Fall,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Alphaville,
Shuggie Otis,
FM Einheit,
Main Source,
Japan,
The Saints,
The Slackers,
The Velvet Underground,
Howard Jones,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Gerry Rafferty,
Jerry's Kids,
Joey Negro,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Zeros,
Maurizio,
Basic Channel,
Fat Boys,
Juan Atkins,
Al Stewart,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Alarm Clocks,
Adolescents,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Bill Wells,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Crooked Eye,
China Crisis,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The New Christs,
Pulsallama,
Zero Boys,
Television Personalities,
Connie Case,
The Vogues,
The Martian,
Wolf Eyes,
The Selecter,
The Pretty Things,
Rod Modell,
Rekid,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
These Immortal Souls,
Dual Sessions,
Glambeats Corp.,
Althea and Donna,
Mission of Burma, Mission of Burma, Mission of Burma, Mission of Burma.
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.