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 Czech Republic and from Lagos.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Rhythm & Sound to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Youth Brigade. All the underground hits.
All The Slits tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scratch Acid record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Neu! record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lou Reed,
the Fania All-Stars,
Subhumans,
Masters at Work,
Monks,
Sonny Sharrock,
Ice-T,
Scion,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Morten Harket,
Flamin' Groovies,
Magazine,
Rapeman,
Scott Walker,
Sugar Minott,
Rosa Yemen,
Dual Sessions,
Gichy Dan,
The Stooges,
Wings,
Traffic Nightmare,
Bad Manners,
Main Source,
Whodini,
The Pretty Things,
Nirvana,
Jerry's Kids,
Blossom Toes,
H. Thieme,
Fad Gadget,
Harmonia,
Glambeats Corp.,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
EPMD,
Sun City Girls,
The Dirtbombs,
Yellowson,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Sun Ra,
Little Man,
Grey Daturas,
Minutemen,
The Seeds,
The Remains,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Leaves,
The Velvet Underground,
the Slits,
Wally Richardson,
Fatback Band,
Urselle,
Graham Central Station,
Mandrill,
Patti Smith,
The Barracudas,
Judy Mowatt,
CMW,
The Sound,
Peter & Gordon,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Tommy Roe,
Shoche,
FM Einheit, FM Einheit, FM Einheit, FM Einheit.
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.