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 Venezuela and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 chamberlin 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 Zapp to the techno kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 The Fugs. All the underground hits.
All Bauhaus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lou Reed & John Cale record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 an oboe and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Audionom record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lou Christie,
Scion,
John Lydon,
CMW,
Minny Pops,
Johnny Clarke,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Anthony Braxton,
Sun Ra,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
EPMD,
Delta 5,
New Age Steppers,
Gang Gang Dance,
Delon & Dalcan,
Guru Guru,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Yellowson,
Adolescents,
Henry Cow,
Arcadia,
Dead Boys,
Charles Mingus,
Barclay James Harvest,
Deepchord,
Alton Ellis,
Susan Cadogan,
Dark Day,
Al Stewart,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Rufus Thomas,
Public Image Ltd.,
Gabor Szabo,
Ultravox,
Jeru the Damaja,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Second Layer,
Funkadelic,
The Detroit Cobras,
Mad Mike,
Symarip,
The Litter,
The Neon Judgement,
Accadde A,
Wolf Eyes,
Grauzone,
Eric B and Rakim,
David Axelrod,
Erykah Badu,
K-Klass,
Rhythm & Sound,
Donald Byrd,
Ronnie Foster,
The Busters,
Jandek,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Idris Muhammad,
The Kinks,
Qualms,
Chris Corsano,
Cymande, Cymande, Cymande, Cymande.
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.