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 Seychelles and from Bologna.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Manchester.
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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Television Personalities to the grime kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Justin Hinds & The Dominoes. All the underground hits.
All Aloha Tigers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kevin Saunderson 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Andrew Hill record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jeff Lynne,
48th St. Collective,
Mark Hollis,
Underground Resistance,
Animal Collective,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Gladiators,
La Düsseldorf,
Whodini,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Simply Red,
The Sound,
John Lydon,
Rhythm & Sound,
Flipper,
Thee Headcoats,
Kaleidoscope,
The Last Poets,
Pharoah Sanders,
Eli Mardock,
Sugar Minott,
Gang Starr,
Ronnie Foster,
Josef K,
Laurel Aitken,
Pantaleimon,
the Normal,
K-Klass,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Terry Callier,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Quadrant,
Avey Tare,
Shuggie Otis,
Mo-Dettes,
The Cosmic Jokers,
the Human League,
Delta 5,
June Days,
Cluster,
Y Pants,
Ultravox,
LL Cool J,
The Human League,
Unrelated Segments,
Aswad,
Soul Sonic Force,
the Association,
Traffic Nightmare,
Negative Approach,
the Swans,
Gregory Isaacs,
Sister Nancy,
Popol Vuh,
Cheater Slicks,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Gang Gang Dance,
Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685.
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.