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 Trinidad & Tobago and from Johannesburg.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 1983 at the first Bronski Beat practice in a loft in Brixton.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Kerri Chandler to the grime kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 It's A Beautiful Day. All the underground hits.
All Pierre Henry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Angels of Light & Akron/Family 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Freddie Wadling record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
London Community Gospel Choir,
H. Thieme,
The Cure,
The Busters,
The Sonics,
The Index,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Black Pus,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Basic Channel,
the Swans,
Fear,
Banda Bassotti,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Intrusion,
Kenny Larkin,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Severed Heads,
Stereo Dub,
Interpol,
New York Dolls,
Public Enemy,
D'Angelo,
China Crisis,
Eric B and Rakim,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Soft Cell,
Fad Gadget,
Gang of Four,
Groovy Waters,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Piero Umiliani,
Yaz,
R.M.O.,
Simply Red,
The Smoke,
Trumans Water,
The Vogues,
Swell Maps,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Nas,
Duran Duran,
The Five Americans,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Motions,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Morten Harket,
Mo-Dettes,
Popol Vuh,
The Young Rascals,
Joy Division,
Stiv Bators,
Wally Richardson,
Spandau Ballet,
Gil Scott Heron,
Tim Buckley,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Kas Product, Kas Product, Kas Product, Kas Product.
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.