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 Turkmenistan and from Johannesburg.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Television to the funk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 F. McDonald. All the underground hits.
All Amazonics tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gregory Isaacs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer 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?
Kerri Chandler,
Thee Headcoats,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Scan 7,
The Seeds,
Crooked Eye,
R.M.O.,
Sister Nancy,
Cymande,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Count Five,
DNA,
Crispy Ambulance,
Mary Jane Girls,
Lee Hazlewood,
Deadbeat,
Second Layer,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Kinks,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Ronnie Foster,
Joyce Sims,
Echospace,
The Dirtbombs,
Marvin Gaye,
Fela Kuti,
Dawn Penn,
Bad Manners,
Make Up,
Angry Samoans,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Quantec,
La Düsseldorf,
Arcadia,
The J.B.'s,
Avey Tare,
The Zeros,
PIL,
Graham Central Station,
Easy Going,
The Evens,
The Raincoats,
Lindisfarne,
Flash Fearless,
Kenny Larkin,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Josef K,
Barrington Levy,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Ponytail,
Jeff Mills,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Circle Jerks,
Soul Sonic Force,
KRS-One,
Alison Limerick,
The Blues Magoos,
Terrestrial Tones,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane, Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane, Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane, Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane.
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.