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 Yemen and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Basic Channel to the grime kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Soul Sonic Force. All the underground hits.
All Scientists tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hashim record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alton Ellis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Letta Mbulu,
Soft Machine,
Panda Bear,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Colin Newman,
the Fania All-Stars,
Peter & Gordon,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
One Last Wish,
The Gories,
Girls At Our Best!,
Brand Nubian,
Moss Icon,
The Names,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Urselle,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Black Flag,
Hot Snakes,
Scrapy,
Boz Scaggs,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Faraquet,
Audionom,
Bauhaus,
Dead Boys,
In Retrospect,
Carl Craig,
Sex Pistols,
Icehouse,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Sun City Girls,
Mad Mike,
Danielle Patucci,
Electric Prunes,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Rekid,
Gil Scott Heron,
Jacob Miller,
Idris Muhammad,
Babytalk,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Drive Like Jehu,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Radiopuhelimet,
Pagans,
The Barracudas,
Marcia Griffiths,
Simply Red,
Kaleidoscope,
The Misunderstood,
Sarah Menescal,
John Holt,
FM Einheit,
Mary Jane Girls,
Black Bananas,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Pantytec,
Dave Gahan,
Sällskapet,
Amon Düül II, Amon Düül II, Amon Düül II, Amon Düül II.
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.