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 Delhi.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the guitar 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 Kas Product to the rap kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Section 25. All the underground hits.
All the Human League tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Neil Young record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a X-102 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Birthday Party,
Sonny Sharrock,
Livin' Joy,
Gastr Del Sol,
Aural Exciters,
The Fuzztones,
Carl Craig,
Nirvana,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Pole,
The Electric Prunes,
The Buckinghams,
Cluster,
Marmalade,
The Flesh Eaters,
Harry Pussy,
Deadbeat,
Albert Ayler,
Radiohead,
The J.B.'s,
Electric Prunes,
LL Cool J,
X-Ray Spex,
Colin Newman,
Funky Four + One,
Pagans,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Derrick Morgan,
The Skatalites,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Index,
Country Teasers,
Scan 7,
The Neon Judgement,
Drexciya,
Ralphi Rosario,
Desert Stars,
Ten City,
Slave,
Public Enemy,
Cameo,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Quando Quango,
Bobby Byrd,
Eric Copeland,
Fatback Band,
Iggy Pop,
Wasted Youth,
The Cowsills,
Maurizio,
Soulsonic Force,
Ultimate Spinach,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Vladislav Delay,
Terry Callier,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family.
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.