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 Sudan and from Columbus.
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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Babytalk to the grime kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 London Community Gospel Choir. All the underground hits.
All Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Banda Bassotti 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Move record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bluetip,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Matthew Bourne,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
kango's stein massive,
Procol Harum,
Smog,
Fela Kuti,
Arcadia,
Lebanon Hanover,
Bill Near,
the Swans,
Roxy Music,
Funkadelic,
OOIOO,
Oneida,
Blake Baxter,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Mandrill,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Soft Machine,
X-102,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Lou Christie,
Q65,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Moebius,
Joe Smooth,
The Modern Lovers,
Severed Heads,
Surgeon,
Pole,
Bang On A Can,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Kool Moe Dee,
JFA,
The Trojans,
Joyce Sims,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Mummies,
Crime,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Grass Roots,
Trumans Water,
Essential Logic,
Glenn Branca,
Masters at Work,
EPMD,
The Saints,
New Order,
Flash Fearless,
Kas Product,
Ituana,
Laurel Aitken,
Hoover,
The Young Rascals,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Bizarre Inc.,
Cabaret Voltaire, Cabaret Voltaire, Cabaret Voltaire, Cabaret Voltaire.
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.