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 Georgia and from Copenhagen.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 marimba 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 Art Ensemble Of Chicago to the jazz kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Jandek. All the underground hits.
All Johnny Clarke tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Toasters record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fifty Foot Hose record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sight & Sound,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Offenders,
Mandrill,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Sixth Finger,
Camouflage,
Make Up,
Spandau Ballet,
Chrome,
The Knickerbockers,
Jerry's Kids,
Simply Red,
Aural Exciters,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Steve Hackett,
Animal Collective,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Echospace,
Letta Mbulu,
Das Ding,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Andrew Hill,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
KRS-One,
Brothers Johnson,
Frankie Knuckles,
Marc Almond,
Mark Hollis,
Todd Terry,
Massinfluence,
Pharoah Sanders,
Circle Jerks,
The Gladiators,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Depeche Mode,
Zero Boys,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Grauzone,
Isaac Hayes,
June of 44,
Joy Division,
Barclay James Harvest,
Curtis Mayfield,
Kas Product,
Matthew Halsall,
Oneida,
The Music Machine,
Los Fastidios,
Easy Going,
Al Stewart,
Lalo Schifrin,
Slick Rick,
The Martian,
The Motions,
Swans,
Gang Green,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Skriet,
Drexciya,
Television,
Tears for Fears, Tears for Fears, Tears for Fears, Tears for Fears.
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.