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 Japan and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Mexico City.
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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Supertramp to the dance 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 Eric Dolphy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Can 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tropical Tobacco record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sam Rivers,
The Pop Group,
Guru Guru,
Franke,
Godley & Creme,
T.S.O.L.,
Radio Birdman,
Bobby Byrd,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Bluetip,
The Mummies,
Soul Sonic Force,
Eric Dolphy,
Brass Construction,
Maurizio,
Ossler,
The United States of America,
Q and Not U,
Circle Jerks,
Parry Music,
Bauhaus,
Maleditus Sound,
Youth Brigade,
Au Pairs,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Gladiators,
The Real Kids,
Matthew Halsall,
Amon Düül,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Joe Finger,
Pet Shop Boys,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Nas,
La Düsseldorf,
The Techniques,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Rosa Yemen,
Jimmy McGriff,
ABC,
The Sound,
The Smiths,
The American Breed,
10cc,
UT,
June Days,
The Misunderstood,
Schoolly D,
U.S. Maple,
Kaleidoscope,
Livin' Joy,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
D'Angelo,
X-Ray Spex,
Boz Scaggs,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Bronski Beat,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen.
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.