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 Slovakia and from Hong Kong.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Icehouse to the punk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Prince Buster. All the underground hits.
All Erasure tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Bar-Kays 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Surgeon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bill Near,
Joy Division,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Sound,
The Count Five,
Fatback Band,
Quantec,
Ossler,
The Mojo Men,
Erykah Badu,
The Five Americans,
Wolf Eyes,
Can,
Guru Guru,
Joyce Sims,
Sixth Finger,
Echospace,
Nick Fraelich,
Skaos,
Slave,
Schoolly D,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Sonny Sharrock,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Sarah Menescal,
Ornette Coleman,
The Angels of Light,
Visage,
Zero Boys,
Matthew Bourne,
The Fall,
Crooked Eye,
Little Man,
These Immortal Souls,
D'Angelo,
The Fugs,
Jimmy McGriff,
DNA,
Skriet,
The Evens,
The Smiths,
The Pop Group,
Lower 48,
Altered Images,
Moby Grape,
Black Moon,
Harmonia,
The Monks,
The Barracudas,
Graham Central Station,
Alton Ellis,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Blues Magoos,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Niagra,
The Buckinghams,
Aswad,
H. Thieme,
Grauzone,
John Cale,
Barbara Tucker, Barbara Tucker, Barbara Tucker, Barbara Tucker.
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.