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 Pakistan and from New York.
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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 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 Massinfluence to the jazz 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 Sun Ra. All the underground hits.
All Gil Scott Heron tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Aaron Thompson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kerri Chandler record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Toni Rubio,
Maurizio,
Black Bananas,
David Bowie,
Eric Dolphy,
The Associates,
Magma,
Sonic Youth,
Radiopuhelimet,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Sight & Sound,
The Grass Roots,
The Fire Engines,
Delon & Dalcan,
the Association,
Slave,
Massinfluence,
the Soft Cell,
Scrapy,
D'Angelo,
R.M.O.,
Neu!,
Robert Wyatt,
The Smoke,
Silicon Teens,
Jeff Lynne,
In Retrospect,
Ossler,
Stiv Bators,
Zero Boys,
Juan Atkins,
Bill Wells,
The Residents,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Make Up,
Groovy Waters,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
John Foxx,
These Immortal Souls,
Theoretical Girls,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
10cc,
Josef K,
The Blues Magoos,
Robert Hood,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Lebanon Hanover,
Scott Walker,
The Selecter,
Spoonie Gee,
Eric Copeland,
Nick Fraelich,
John Lydon,
Gichy Dan,
Barrington Levy,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
June of 44,
Young Marble Giants,
John Holt,
Cluster,
Model 500,
Scientists, Scientists, Scientists, Scientists.
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.