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 Panama and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Fear to the disco kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 The Neon Judgement. All the underground hits.
All Yusef Lateef tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every PIL 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Groovy Waters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hasil Adkins,
T.S.O.L.,
the Sonics,
Neil Young,
Agitation Free,
Mars,
The Leaves,
cv313,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Desert Stars,
Absolute Body Control,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Main Source,
Sandy B,
Amon Düül II,
Can,
Faraquet,
Charles Mingus,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
48th St. Collective,
Severed Heads,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Fall,
One Last Wish,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Joey Negro,
a-ha,
CMW,
Deadbeat,
The Shadows of Knight,
Pantytec,
Vainqueur,
Nation of Ulysses,
Marvin Gaye,
Glambeats Corp.,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Aural Exciters,
Johnny Clarke,
the Fania All-Stars,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Vladislav Delay,
Jacob Miller,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Brothers Johnson,
the Association,
Au Pairs,
Mr. Review,
Throbbing Gristle,
Mary Jane Girls,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Delon & Dalcan,
the Soft Cell,
Cheater Slicks,
Bad Manners,
The United States of America,
Wolf Eyes,
Swell Maps,
The Invisible,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Art Ensemble Of Chicago.
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.