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 Armenia and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Manila.
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 harpsichord 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 Neil Young to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Zapp. All the underground hits.
All Flash Fearless tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Invisible record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Skarface record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Warren Ellis,
Gerry Rafferty,
Flipper,
Kevin Saunderson,
Dawn Penn,
Jerry Gold Smith,
James White and The Blacks,
Reagan Youth,
Curtis Mayfield,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Oblivians,
Laurel Aitken,
Kas Product,
Groovy Waters,
Lower 48,
The Misunderstood,
Bang On A Can,
Rhythm & Sound,
L. Decosne,
The Standells,
Index,
Hardrive,
The Gories,
Zero Boys,
Marcia Griffiths,
Babytalk,
Fela Kuti,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Alarm Clocks,
Pierre Henry,
New York Dolls,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
X-102,
Carl Craig,
Sugar Minott,
Chrome,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Symarip,
The Smoke,
Black Sheep,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Saccharine Trust,
The Monks,
Jimmy McGriff,
Pantytec,
One Last Wish,
The Divine Comedy,
Suburban Knight,
Radiopuhelimet,
D'Angelo,
Cybotron,
Rites of Spring,
La Düsseldorf,
The Blues Magoos,
Black Moon,
Letta Mbulu,
MC5,
Johnny Osbourne,
Al Stewart,
The Skatalites,
Blancmange,
The Grass Roots, The Grass Roots, The Grass Roots, The Grass Roots.
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.