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 St Lucia and from Tehran.
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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Index to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Lee Hazlewood. All the underground hits.
All Faust tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Glenn Branca record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nas record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Black Flag,
New Order,
Popol Vuh,
The Fire Engines,
Fugazi,
the Bar-Kays,
The Litter,
Marmalade,
John Foxx,
Faraquet,
The Names,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Lalann,
Idris Muhammad,
Andrew Hill,
Livin' Joy,
The Toasters,
Swell Maps,
Ponytail,
Nas,
Carl Craig,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Todd Terry,
The Blues Magoos,
Rapeman,
Black Sheep,
Terrestrial Tones,
X-Ray Spex,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Blackbyrds,
Donny Hathaway,
Chrome,
Moebius,
Masters at Work,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Don Cherry,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Neon Judgement,
Kevin Saunderson,
Trumans Water,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
La Düsseldorf,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Darondo,
David McCallum,
The Doobie Brothers,
Con Funk Shun,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Buckinghams,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
the Germs,
Lalo Schifrin,
the Swans,
Brand Nubian,
Jandek,
Robert Görl,
The Count Five,
Fatback Band,
Anakelly, Anakelly, Anakelly, Anakelly.
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.