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 Libya and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Al Stewart to the funk 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 Mad Mike. All the underground hits.
All Mo-Dettes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every 8 Eyed Spy 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Chris & Cosey record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dual Sessions,
Index,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Wasted Youth,
R.M.O.,
Lakeside,
Chris Corsano,
The Busters,
Boogie Down Productions,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Second Layer,
The Names,
MDC,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Rites of Spring,
Robert Hood,
Arthur Verocai,
Popol Vuh,
Roy Ayers,
John Coltrane,
John Lydon,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Angry Samoans,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Roger Hodgson,
New Order,
Scrapy,
Nick Fraelich,
Q and Not U,
The Seeds,
Grey Daturas,
Funkadelic,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Nico,
The Associates,
Black Bananas,
World's Most,
Pet Shop Boys,
Zero Boys,
Kurtis Blow,
The Beau Brummels,
Joe Smooth,
the Association,
Roxy Music,
Sex Pistols,
JFA,
Slave,
Charles Mingus,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Mantronix,
The Litter,
Sonic Youth,
Excepter,
Soft Cell,
The Black Dice,
Qualms,
Funky Four + One,
Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe.
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.