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 Nigeria and from Paris.
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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Paris.
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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the güiro 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the rap kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Fad Gadget. All the underground hits.
All Curtis Mayfield tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Agent Orange record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 mellotron and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Teenage Jesus and the Jerks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Boogie Down Productions,
Bluetip,
Essential Logic,
Public Image Ltd.,
Idris Muhammad,
Quadrant,
JFA,
Sixth Finger,
The Shadows of Knight,
Kevin Saunderson,
Pierre Henry,
Roy Ayers,
the Normal,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Porter Ricks,
Youth Brigade,
Sound Behaviour,
The Martian,
Mars,
Theoretical Girls,
James White and The Blacks,
Minutemen,
Brass Construction,
The Black Dice,
The Star Department,
John Coltrane,
Half Japanese,
Severed Heads,
Radio Birdman,
Joey Negro,
Mantronix,
Robert Görl,
Aaron Thompson,
The Electric Prunes,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Rekid,
Bauhaus,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Adolescents,
Al Stewart,
Don Cherry,
Infiniti,
The Barracudas,
Gerry Rafferty,
Wings,
The Angels of Light,
Bobby Womack,
Pylon,
Mo-Dettes,
Glenn Branca,
Lee Hazlewood,
the Bar-Kays,
Second Layer,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Tim Buckley,
John Holt,
Boz Scaggs,
Marvin Gaye,
The Cowsills,
Brothers Johnson,
Quantec,
Simply Red,
Pagans,
Aswad, Aswad, Aswad, Aswad.
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.