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 Senegal and from London.
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 1968 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 The Dirtbombs to the punk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Dawn Penn. All the underground hits.
All Yaz tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Q65 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camberwell Now record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Con Funk Shun,
Derrick May,
The Neon Judgement,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Excepter,
The Offenders,
John Lydon,
Tropical Tobacco,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Jerry's Kids,
Slave,
Swell Maps,
Todd Rundgren,
Mo-Dettes,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Count Five,
Crash Course in Science,
Iggy Pop,
Reuben Wilson,
Cheater Slicks,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Chris & Cosey,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Average White Band,
Joe Smooth,
Joensuu 1685,
Tubeway Army,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Absolute Body Control,
Ten City,
Archie Shepp,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Warren Ellis,
Piero Umiliani,
Nirvana,
Bad Manners,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Black Moon,
The Mummies,
The Move,
Prince Buster,
Anthony Braxton,
Public Image Ltd.,
the Human League,
Ultravox,
Charles Mingus,
Boz Scaggs,
Rod Modell,
Crispy Ambulance,
Aloha Tigers,
Tres Demented,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Donny Hathaway,
China Crisis,
Arcadia,
Ralphi Rosario,
John Holt,
Mars,
Max Romeo,
The Beau Brummels,
One Last Wish,
Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci.
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.