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 St Lucia and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1970 at the first Onyeabor practice in a loft in Enugu.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Aural Exciters to the punk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane. All the underground hits.
All Television tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pet Shop Boys 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bobby Womack record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Animal Collective,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Das Ding,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Sight & Sound,
The United States of America,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Soft Cell,
The Offenders,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Eric Copeland,
Gichy Dan,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Move,
Infiniti,
Steve Hackett,
Slave,
The Vogues,
Banda Bassotti,
The New Christs,
Erasure,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
David McCallum,
The Misunderstood,
Procol Harum,
The Dirtbombs,
The Seeds,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Cymande,
Alice Coltrane,
The Blackbyrds,
The Walker Brothers,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Todd Terry,
Reuben Wilson,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Motions,
Au Pairs,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Kinks,
John Cale,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Fortunes,
EPMD,
Lindisfarne,
R.M.O.,
Vladislav Delay,
The Associates,
Jacques Brel,
Excepter,
Rufus Thomas,
Soul Sonic Force,
Silicon Teens,
Stiv Bators,
Rod Modell,
Accadde A,
Ice-T,
Essential Logic,
Agent Orange, Agent Orange, Agent Orange, Agent Orange.
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.