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 Marshall Islands and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in 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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Derrick Morgan to the grime 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 Dual Sessions. All the underground hits.
All Goldenarms tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Avey Tare record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 theremin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fela Kuti record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Don Cherry,
F. McDonald,
Grandmaster Flash,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Joensuu 1685,
Minor Threat,
Roger Hodgson,
Gang of Four,
Siglo XX,
Guru Guru,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Sparks,
Maleditus Sound,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Janne Schatter,
Frankie Knuckles,
Derrick Morgan,
The Busters,
Ultimate Spinach,
Los Fastidios,
OOIOO,
Avey Tare,
CMW,
Crispian St. Peters,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Pierre Henry,
a-ha,
The Index,
The Skatalites,
Chris & Cosey,
The Fall,
Sam Rivers,
The Standells,
Dead Boys,
Dual Sessions,
Lalo Schifrin,
Isaac Hayes,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Pop Group,
Reuben Wilson,
Jawbox,
Byron Stingily,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Babytalk,
Junior Murvin,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Ponytail,
Bad Manners,
Magma,
Motorama,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Lalann,
Crooked Eye,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Half Japanese,
Robert Görl,
Flamin' Groovies,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Laurel Aitken,
Ultravox, Ultravox, Ultravox, Ultravox.
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.