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 Azerbaijan 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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the rhodes 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 John Holt to the rock kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Gories. All the underground hits.
All Organ tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every James Chance & The Contortions record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Associates record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Janne Schatter,
Bizarre Inc.,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Derrick Morgan,
Alison Limerick,
The Sonics,
Scott Walker,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The J.B.'s,
Tom Boy,
Reuben Wilson,
Mission of Burma,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Invisible,
Mary Jane Girls,
Roxy Music,
Radiopuhelimet,
Cluster,
Yazoo,
Quantec,
Severed Heads,
Jesper Dahlback,
Rotary Connection,
Rites of Spring,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Faraquet,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Patti Smith,
Arab on Radar,
China Crisis,
Deepchord,
Althea and Donna,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
MDC,
June of 44,
Sound Behaviour,
Barbara Tucker,
The Blackbyrds,
Oblivians,
Altered Images,
Malaria!,
Audionom,
Blossom Toes,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Mandrill,
The New Christs,
Tres Demented,
Pulsallama,
Barclay James Harvest,
Eurythmics,
Glenn Branca,
The Black Dice,
Zapp,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Mojo Men,
Henry Cow,
Peter & Gordon,
John Holt,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Cheater Slicks,
Slick Rick,
The Angels of Light, The Angels of Light, The Angels of Light, The Angels of Light.
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.