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 Jamaica and from Portland.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 808 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 Sparks to the funk 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 The Grass Roots. All the underground hits.
All Rakim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Graham Central Station 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Unrelated Segments record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ultra Naté,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Moody Blues,
PIL,
Cymande,
Lebanon Hanover,
Charles Mingus,
The Invisible,
Tres Demented,
Michelle Simonal,
Marshall Jefferson,
Rapeman,
Kerri Chandler,
Jacques Brel,
Chris Corsano,
The Motions,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Cramps,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Flamin' Groovies,
the Normal,
Main Source,
MDC,
Average White Band,
Crime,
Stetsasonic,
Bill Near,
Prince Buster,
John Cale,
Dawn Penn,
Todd Terry,
Suicide,
Half Japanese,
The Fugs,
Wally Richardson,
Jandek,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Archie Shepp,
Steve Hackett,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Remains,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Soulsonic Force,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Bill Wells,
Toni Rubio,
The Trojans,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Morten Harket,
Excepter,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Velvet Underground,
Howard Jones,
Sound Behaviour,
The Human League,
Grandmaster Flash,
D'Angelo,
Guru Guru,
Heaven 17,
Marmalade,
New Age Steppers,
the Slits,
The Modern Lovers, The Modern Lovers, The Modern Lovers, The Modern Lovers.
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.