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 Belize and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the oboe 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 Archie Shepp to the jazz kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Sugar Minott. All the underground hits.
All Bauhaus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every China Crisis record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Wake record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Susan Cadogan,
Godley & Creme,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Negative Approach,
Eurythmics,
Chris Corsano,
Boogie Down Productions,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Crime,
Flash Fearless,
Ken Boothe,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Youth Brigade,
The Birthday Party,
Johnny Osbourne,
Gang of Four,
Monolake,
The New Christs,
Supertramp,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Gories,
Junior Murvin,
Johnny Clarke,
Nation of Ulysses,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Mission of Burma,
Black Flag,
The Blues Magoos,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
X-Ray Spex,
Magazine,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Eddi Front,
The Smoke,
Al Stewart,
Quando Quango,
Aloha Tigers,
Bootsy Collins,
Panda Bear,
Moebius,
The Flesh Eaters,
Urselle,
Schoolly D,
Josef K,
Oblivians,
Rakim,
K-Klass,
Thee Headcoats,
The Offenders,
Loose Ends,
Deakin,
The Monochrome Set,
Marcia Griffiths,
Cluster,
The Litter,
CMW,
Pantytec,
DJ Style,
ABC,
Television Personalities,
Scrapy,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Slackers, The Slackers, The Slackers, The Slackers.
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.