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 Uganda and from Bremen.
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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the snare 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 The Slackers to the jazz 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 Pet Shop Boys. All the underground hits.
All Janne Schatter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The J.B.'s record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 an oboe and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rhythm & Sound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Association,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Lou Christie,
Echospace,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Kenny Larkin,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Chris Corsano,
Jandek,
Fad Gadget,
Q65,
The Tremeloes,
DJ Sneak,
Outsiders,
The Dead C,
The Fuzztones,
Black Bananas,
Blake Baxter,
The Fugs,
the Soft Cell,
Grauzone,
Loose Ends,
Barbara Tucker,
Avey Tare,
Tom Boy,
Magma,
Buzzcocks,
Pantaleimon,
June Days,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Scratch Acid,
The Velvet Underground,
The Monks,
The Golliwogs,
X-101,
Animal Collective,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
John Holt,
Eyeless In Gaza,
John Foxx,
Kerrie Biddell,
Mark Hollis,
Thompson Twins,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
In Retrospect,
Television,
Technova,
The Standells,
The Move,
Basic Channel,
Hoover,
Amon Düül II,
Ossler,
Al Stewart,
The Happenings,
Wasted Youth,
The Saints,
Unwound,
Parry Music,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Warsaw,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Curtis Mayfield, Curtis Mayfield, Curtis Mayfield, Curtis Mayfield.
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.