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 Greece and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Shanghai.
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 1978 at the first Visage 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 Sister Nancy to the funk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Crime. All the underground hits.
All Suburban Knight tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Magazine record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soul Sonic Force record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
X-101,
Barry Ungar,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Grauzone,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Vainqueur,
Spandau Ballet,
Soul Sonic Force,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Warren Ellis,
48th St. Collective,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Lungfish,
the Swans,
Rekid,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Albert Ayler,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Jeru the Damaja,
Bobby Sherman,
Agitation Free,
Ralphi Rosario,
Slick Rick,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Panda Bear,
Kaleidoscope,
The Techniques,
Q and Not U,
Guru Guru,
Underground Resistance,
Funky Four + One,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Neil Young,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Anakelly,
Frankie Knuckles,
Marc Almond,
T.S.O.L.,
Cluster,
Black Moon,
Public Enemy,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Rakim,
Danielle Patucci,
The Selecter,
Stiv Bators,
Royal Trux,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Dennis Brown,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Barracudas,
Camouflage,
Davy DMX,
T. Rex,
Max Romeo,
This Heat,
OOIOO,
Gregory Isaacs,
Joyce Sims,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
John Holt,
the Human League, the Human League, the Human League, the Human League.
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.