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 Eritrea and from Stockholm.
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 1965 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Tomorrow 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 Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft. All the underground hits.
All Cluster tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Max Romeo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an organ 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 mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
David McCallum,
Colin Newman,
the Normal,
Buzzcocks,
Gong,
Inner City,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Minutemen,
Lindisfarne,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Surgeon,
The Smoke,
Camberwell Now,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Livin' Joy,
Thee Headcoats,
Bauhaus,
The Divine Comedy,
Gil Scott Heron,
Roger Hodgson,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Knickerbockers,
The Red Krayola,
The Electric Prunes,
Stetsasonic,
Roy Ayers,
the Germs,
Robert Hood,
Chrome,
The Standells,
Gregory Isaacs,
Motorama,
Lalann,
The Music Machine,
The Misunderstood,
Idris Muhammad,
Theoretical Girls,
Mantronix,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
X-102,
Godley & Creme,
Pole,
Agent Orange,
Tommy Roe,
Ponytail,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Susan Cadogan,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Yaz,
X-101,
Eric B and Rakim,
Ronan,
Public Image Ltd.,
Smog,
Mandrill,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
EPMD,
Eli Mardock,
The Barracudas,
Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour.
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.