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 Kuwait and from Woodstock.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the marimba 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 Quantec to the punk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Motorama. All the underground hits.
All Beasts of Bourbon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Zapp 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb 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 Normal,
Moby Grape,
The Cramps,
Rekid,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Arab on Radar,
X-102,
Eli Mardock,
Girls At Our Best!,
Second Layer,
Rufus Thomas,
the Germs,
Avey Tare,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Matthew Bourne,
The Cure,
Chrome,
Faust,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Eric Copeland,
Altered Images,
Symarip,
A Certain Ratio,
Dorothy Ashby,
Joe Finger,
The Five Americans,
Isaac Hayes,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Lindisfarne,
Nils Olav,
Adolescents,
the Soft Cell,
Country Teasers,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Evens,
Pylon,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The J.B.'s,
Model 500,
Kas Product,
Nation of Ulysses,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
KRS-One,
The Smoke,
Agent Orange,
Con Funk Shun,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Residents,
Sun Ra,
Brand Nubian,
Derrick Morgan,
The Neon Judgement,
Crispian St. Peters,
John Cale,
World's Most,
Blancmange,
Spandau Ballet,
Kenny Larkin,
Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc..
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
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You don't know what you really want.
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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.