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 Korea South and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Electric Light Orchestra to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Brand Nubian. All the underground hits.
All Thee Headcoats tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Metal Thangz record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dennis Brown record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Chris & Cosey,
L. Decosne,
Cymande,
Joey Negro,
David Bowie,
Ossler,
Funky Four + One,
The Litter,
Country Teasers,
Anthony Braxton,
Wire,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Mo-Dettes,
Rotary Connection,
The Fire Engines,
Pantaleimon,
The Dead C,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Birthday Party,
DJ Sneak,
The Trojans,
The Fugs,
The Fall,
The Neon Judgement,
Television,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Ponytail,
Kaleidoscope,
New York Dolls,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Vladislav Delay,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Khruangbin,
Wings,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Curtis Mayfield,
Brass Construction,
In Retrospect,
X-101,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Camberwell Now,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Gun Club,
The Blackbyrds,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
the Swans,
Barry Ungar,
Traffic Nightmare,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Johnny Osbourne,
OOIOO,
EPMD,
Stereo Dub,
PIL,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Red Krayola,
Rhythm & Sound,
Soulsonic Force,
The Associates,
Skaos,
Anakelly,
Johnny Clarke,
Massinfluence, Massinfluence, Massinfluence, Massinfluence.
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.