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 Burkina and from Seoul.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the 808 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 Lebanon Hanover to the techno kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Grauzone. All the underground hits.
All Franke tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Crispian St. Peters 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Youth Brigade record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Susan Cadogan,
Essential Logic,
Schoolly D,
June of 44,
Matthew Bourne,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Tremeloes,
The Monks,
Theoretical Girls,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Toasters,
The Litter,
Monolake,
Arab on Radar,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Magma,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Pylon,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Ossler,
Ludus,
The Walker Brothers,
Basic Channel,
Gichy Dan,
Soul Sonic Force,
Thee Headcoats,
Ken Boothe,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Cameo,
Silicon Teens,
Accadde A,
The Cramps,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Circle Jerks,
Moss Icon,
Harmonia,
One Last Wish,
The Dave Clark Five,
Newcleus,
AZ,
UT,
Tomorrow,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Television,
Curtis Mayfield,
Grey Daturas,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Warsaw,
Model 500,
Sarah Menescal,
Morten Harket,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Bootsy Collins,
Al Stewart,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Delta 5,
Bobby Womack,
The Shadows of Knight, The Shadows of Knight, The Shadows of Knight, The Shadows of Knight.
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.