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 Ethiopia 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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 oboe 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 Y Pants to the funk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Roxy Music. All the underground hits.
All The Dead C tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jandek record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Skatalites record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Monochrome Set,
The Cowsills,
DNA,
The Electric Prunes,
Nico,
Tres Demented,
Fat Boys,
Skaos,
Johnny Osbourne,
Rotary Connection,
cv313,
Robert Wyatt,
Glambeats Corp.,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Juan Atkins,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Victims,
Moss Icon,
The Pretty Things,
The Real Kids,
Hasil Adkins,
Marmalade,
Section 25,
John Coltrane,
the Normal,
The Gladiators,
Eric B and Rakim,
Tubeway Army,
Roy Ayers,
Lightning Bolt,
Whodini,
Dorothy Ashby,
Grey Daturas,
Roger Hodgson,
Stereo Dub,
The Black Dice,
Y Pants,
Roxy Music,
Bad Manners,
Max Romeo,
Jawbox,
The Golliwogs,
T. Rex,
The Human League,
The Star Department,
Sex Pistols,
Danielle Patucci,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Shadows of Knight,
Oblivians,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Avey Tare,
Graham Central Station,
New Order,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Pop Group,
Ornette Coleman,
The Happenings,
Zero Boys,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Fluxion,
Nation of Ulysses, Nation of Ulysses, Nation of Ulysses, Nation of Ulysses.
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.