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 Singapore and from Milan.
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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 mellotron 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 Monochrome Set to the funk 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 Vladislav Delay. All the underground hits.
All Quantec tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cheater Slicks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sun City Girls,
Marc Almond,
Cluster,
Drive Like Jehu,
CMW,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Shuggie Otis,
Rhythm & Sound,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Grandmaster Flash,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Peter & Gordon,
B.T. Express,
The Gun Club,
Yaz,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Wally Richardson,
Urselle,
Tropical Tobacco,
Moby Grape,
Frankie Knuckles,
Delta 5,
Isaac Hayes,
David Axelrod,
Marvin Gaye,
DJ Sneak,
Grey Daturas,
Fela Kuti,
Royal Trux,
Rites of Spring,
Sällskapet,
The Birthday Party,
Gabor Szabo,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Buckinghams,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
One Last Wish,
Glambeats Corp.,
Barbara Tucker,
Alphaville,
Youth Brigade,
Interpol,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Leaves,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Zeros,
Maleditus Sound,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Qualms,
Fear,
PIL,
Hardrive,
Derrick May,
Oblivians,
The Black Dice,
Fugazi,
Quadrant,
Slick Rick, Slick Rick, Slick Rick, Slick Rick.
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.