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 Turkey and from Stockholm.
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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Paris.
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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Neil Young to the punk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Cowsills. All the underground hits.
All Bauhaus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marc Almond 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 sitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dorothy Ashby record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Donny Hathaway,
John Lydon,
Peter & Gordon,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Moss Icon,
The United States of America,
Pet Shop Boys,
Toni Rubio,
A Certain Ratio,
Ultra Naté,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Black Dice,
Don Cherry,
Average White Band,
Gregory Isaacs,
Kevin Saunderson,
Aaron Thompson,
Curtis Mayfield,
Sixth Finger,
Moby Grape,
Duran Duran,
Barbara Tucker,
Chrome,
Severed Heads,
Grauzone,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
JFA,
Derrick Morgan,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Amazonics,
Index,
D'Angelo,
Blancmange,
Drexciya,
Wolf Eyes,
Hasil Adkins,
LL Cool J,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Sällskapet,
Roger Hodgson,
Minny Pops,
Johnny Clarke,
Marmalade,
Thee Headcoats,
Wasted Youth,
Brand Nubian,
Rosa Yemen,
MDC,
The Cowsills,
Bizarre Inc.,
Pussy Galore,
Faraquet,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Accadde A,
Fad Gadget,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Saccharine Trust,
Parry Music,
Kool Moe Dee,
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.