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 Panama and from Jakarta.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Hong Kong.
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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Delta 5 to the electroclash 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 Jandek. All the underground hits.
All Ludus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Matthew Halsall 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Slick Rick record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rufus Thomas,
Warsaw,
Minutemen,
The Move,
Rapeman,
Quando Quango,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Harmonia,
The Skatalites,
Desert Stars,
Roy Ayers,
Kurtis Blow,
The Star Department,
Dark Day,
The Blackbyrds,
Drexciya,
New Age Steppers,
Black Bananas,
The Gun Club,
Pole,
Y Pants,
Livin' Joy,
the Slits,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Lightning Bolt,
Soft Machine,
Brass Construction,
Parry Music,
Chrome,
Morten Harket,
Archie Shepp,
Yaz,
Stiv Bators,
Thompson Twins,
Gastr Del Sol,
Erasure,
Boredoms,
The Real Kids,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Golliwogs,
The Fugs,
The Slackers,
The Monks,
Sandy B,
Brick,
Albert Ayler,
Traffic Nightmare,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Kerrie Biddell,
Agent Orange,
Toni Rubio,
Sexual Harrassment,
Graham Central Station,
Skriet,
The Tremeloes,
Sugar Minott,
Icehouse,
Flamin' Groovies,
Stereo Dub,
Technova,
Darondo,
The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band.
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.