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 Somalia and from Lyon.
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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the marimba 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 Bobby Byrd to the techno kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Ituana. All the underground hits.
All ABC tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pulsallama 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 güiro and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Archie Shepp record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Blackbyrds,
Nik Kershaw,
Talk Talk,
The Barracudas,
Visage,
Chris Corsano,
Hot Snakes,
Sugar Minott,
Lalann,
The Trojans,
Country Teasers,
Kool Moe Dee,
Junior Murvin,
Kayak,
The Gap Band,
New Age Steppers,
Anakelly,
Absolute Body Control,
Parry Music,
the Germs,
Arcadia,
Barbara Tucker,
Can,
Jacques Brel,
Ornette Coleman,
Hasil Adkins,
The Gories,
Brass Construction,
the Fania All-Stars,
Althea and Donna,
Essential Logic,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Human League,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
the Sonics,
Agitation Free,
Mad Mike,
Alphaville,
Siglo XX,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Isaac Hayes,
Roxy Music,
Amon Düül,
The Dead C,
Outsiders,
Fatback Band,
Sexual Harrassment,
Chris & Cosey,
Harmonia,
Theoretical Girls,
Bob Dylan,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Sam Rivers,
Intrusion,
One Last Wish,
Leonard Cohen,
The Index,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Tom Boy,
Crispian St. Peters,
Animal Collective,
The Black Dice,
Lou Reed,
Moss Icon, Moss Icon, Moss Icon, Moss Icon.
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.