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 Netherlands and from Bologna.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 Black Flag to the rap kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Negative Approach. All the underground hits.
All The Modern Lovers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Max Romeo 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Gap Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roy Ayers,
Organ,
Gang Gang Dance,
Godley & Creme,
Infiniti,
Niagra,
Y Pants,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Unrelated Segments,
Eurythmics,
Section 25,
the Bar-Kays,
The Stooges,
Q65,
Procol Harum,
Outsiders,
Toni Rubio,
Surgeon,
The Slits,
Hot Snakes,
Henry Cow,
The Seeds,
Boogie Down Productions,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Stiv Bators,
Urselle,
Masters at Work,
Darondo,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Toasters,
Altered Images,
Susan Cadogan,
Colin Newman,
Bush Tetras,
Pole,
The Neon Judgement,
Roger Hodgson,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Can,
Ken Boothe,
Joe Finger,
New York Dolls,
New Order,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
the Slits,
Connie Case,
FM Einheit,
Lou Reed,
Drive Like Jehu,
H. Thieme,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Barracudas,
Ronan,
Monks,
Avey Tare,
Bobby Sherman,
the Germs,
Guru Guru,
Dead Boys,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Flamin' Groovies,
Wings, Wings, Wings, Wings.
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.