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 Mali and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 the Swans to the crunk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Quantec. All the underground hits.
All Jimmy McGriff tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Qualms 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marine Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Robert Görl,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Altered Images,
The Doobie Brothers,
Circle Jerks,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
a-ha,
Liliput,
Fear,
F. McDonald,
Deakin,
Byron Stingily,
Mary Jane Girls,
Donald Byrd,
Terry Callier,
The Cramps,
Das Ding,
Barrington Levy,
Pantytec,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Sarah Menescal,
Hoover,
Mandrill,
Agitation Free,
Eric Copeland,
Monks,
Duran Duran,
The Monochrome Set,
Yaz,
Shuggie Otis,
Surgeon,
Television Personalities,
The Happenings,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Derrick May,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Mr. Review,
Procol Harum,
Niagra,
The Sound,
Depeche Mode,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Pet Shop Boys,
Derrick Morgan,
Ultravox,
The Sonics,
One Last Wish,
Cecil Taylor,
Whodini,
The Blues Magoos,
Bad Manners,
Brothers Johnson,
Tomorrow,
Scrapy,
Joe Finger,
B.T. Express,
The Zeros,
Letta Mbulu,
This Heat,
Arab on Radar,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Delta 5,
The Skatalites,
Animal Collective, Animal Collective, Animal Collective, Animal Collective.
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.