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 Malawi and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Gong to the jazz 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 Sonics. All the underground hits.
All Neu! tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Black Sheep 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Slick Rick record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Brand Nubian,
DNA,
KRS-One,
Chrome,
Accadde A,
Negative Approach,
Moebius,
Gang Green,
Bill Wells,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Black Bananas,
World's Most,
Blake Baxter,
Eric Copeland,
Howard Jones,
Eric Dolphy,
Young Marble Giants,
Marmalade,
The Cure,
Banda Bassotti,
The Toasters,
Y Pants,
Gregory Isaacs,
Marc Almond,
The Busters,
Jesper Dahlback,
Cheater Slicks,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Sister Nancy,
Vladislav Delay,
Archie Shepp,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Matthew Bourne,
Bobby Sherman,
Crime,
Big Daddy Kane,
Funky Four + One,
Deakin,
Scion,
Harry Pussy,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Tropical Tobacco,
Popol Vuh,
Desert Stars,
Lebanon Hanover,
Zero Boys,
Subhumans,
Oblivians,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Loose Ends,
Sonic Youth,
Robert Görl,
Outsiders,
Chris Corsano,
Magma,
Sight & Sound,
the Swans,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Thompson Twins,
Ituana, Ituana, Ituana, Ituana.
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.