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 Burundi and from Manchester.
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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra to the grime kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 E-Dancer. All the underground hits.
All Ronnie Foster tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bob Dylan 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Major Organ And The Adding Machine record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kayak,
Pere Ubu,
Lower 48,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Warsaw,
Trumans Water,
Niagra,
Negative Approach,
Vladislav Delay,
Eden Ahbez,
Guru Guru,
Gregory Isaacs,
Au Pairs,
The Leaves,
The Neon Judgement,
Underground Resistance,
Scientists,
The Durutti Column,
Radiohead,
the Normal,
EPMD,
Television,
Rapeman,
Metal Thangz,
Sonic Youth,
CMW,
The Last Poets,
The Toasters,
Grandmaster Flash,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
June Days,
Faraquet,
Crooked Eye,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Crispian St. Peters,
Gichy Dan,
Ice-T,
Von Mondo,
Colin Newman,
Andrew Hill,
the Slits,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Urselle,
T.S.O.L.,
Minor Threat,
Schoolly D,
The American Breed,
Traffic Nightmare,
Flash Fearless,
Joensuu 1685,
The Birthday Party,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Invisible,
Inner City,
Junior Murvin,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Blackbyrds,
Franke,
Mark Hollis,
Max Romeo,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Techniques, The Techniques, The Techniques, The Techniques.
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.