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 Latvia and from Mexico City.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 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 The Velvet Underground to the techno 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All Supertramp tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch 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 güiro and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fluxion record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Youth Brigade,
Eli Mardock,
OOIOO,
Quantec,
Jawbox,
Chris & Cosey,
Audionom,
Essential Logic,
The Gap Band,
Thompson Twins,
Pere Ubu,
K-Klass,
The Knickerbockers,
The Busters,
Minnie Riperton,
New Order,
Steve Hackett,
The Monochrome Set,
Shoche,
Faraquet,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Evens,
U.S. Maple,
Kerrie Biddell,
Patti Smith,
The Sonics,
Pierre Henry,
Eric B and Rakim,
Pharoah Sanders,
Sun Ra,
John Cale,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
A Certain Ratio,
Crispian St. Peters,
Traffic Nightmare,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Howard Jones,
Sex Pistols,
the Germs,
Jimmy McGriff,
Qualms,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Gastr Del Sol,
Echospace,
The Star Department,
John Lydon,
Black Bananas,
The Gun Club,
Main Source,
Drive Like Jehu,
Barclay James Harvest,
the Swans,
Deepchord,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Scrapy,
Spoonie Gee,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Gabor Szabo,
Charles Mingus,
Juan Atkins,
T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L..
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.