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 Korea North and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Bootsy Collins to the grime kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Ituana. All the underground hits.
All UT tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Intrusion record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Susan Cadogan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Groovy Waters,
The Beau Brummels,
Electric Prunes,
Interpol,
Yellowson,
Marvin Gaye,
Amazonics,
Chris Corsano,
Steve Hackett,
Robert Wyatt,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Pantytec,
Camberwell Now,
The Standells,
Alison Limerick,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Funky Four + One,
Lou Christie,
Amon Düül II,
Joe Finger,
Skaos,
Shuggie Otis,
Joy Division,
The Skatalites,
Duran Duran,
Drexciya,
AZ,
Fatback Band,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Tropical Tobacco,
John Foxx,
Derrick Morgan,
Hardrive,
Radio Birdman,
Grandmaster Flash,
Youth Brigade,
Althea and Donna,
Qualms,
Charles Mingus,
a-ha,
the Human League,
Reuben Wilson,
Glambeats Corp.,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Eric Dolphy,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Eddi Front,
Nick Fraelich,
The Buckinghams,
Susan Cadogan,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Lightning Bolt,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Dave Gahan,
Sun City Girls,
T. Rex,
Roxy Music,
Theoretical Girls,
Urselle,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
MC5,
Vladislav Delay, Vladislav Delay, Vladislav Delay, Vladislav Delay.
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.