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 St Lucia and from Columbus.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
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 Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson to the rap 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 Liliput. All the underground hits.
All Stereo Dub tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Deepchord record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soft Machine record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joey Negro,
Zapp,
Janne Schatter,
Model 500,
Slave,
CMW,
The Count Five,
Lebanon Hanover,
Faraquet,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Soft Cell,
Bush Tetras,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Aural Exciters,
Alice Coltrane,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Toni Rubio,
Johnny Osbourne,
Half Japanese,
Basic Channel,
Jimmy McGriff,
Pagans,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Monochrome Set,
Lou Christie,
The Remains,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Rekid,
Dave Gahan,
Television,
Crispian St. Peters,
Radio Birdman,
John Holt,
Sun City Girls,
The Vogues,
Flipper,
Faust,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Radiohead,
This Heat,
Jeff Lynne,
Archie Shepp,
Iggy Pop,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Max Romeo,
Brass Construction,
The Young Rascals,
Lucky Dragons,
Surgeon,
Boogie Down Productions,
the Association,
Gil Scott Heron,
Pharoah Sanders,
Roxette,
Magazine,
Black Pus,
Cybotron,
Blancmange,
Excepter,
Robert Wyatt,
Loose Ends,
Boz Scaggs,
Nas,
Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica.
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.