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 Venezuela and from Tokyo.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 spring reverb 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 FM Einheit 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 Wire. All the underground hits.
All Peter & Gordon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sällskapet 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a cv313 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bobby Sherman,
Fela Kuti,
DNA,
Lyres,
Panda Bear,
Bush Tetras,
Gong,
Drive Like Jehu,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Neu!,
Al Stewart,
The Mojo Men,
Anthony Braxton,
Bootsy Collins,
Johnny Clarke,
The Music Machine,
Tres Demented,
AZ,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Duran Duran,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
World's Most,
The Smiths,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Flipper,
Ludus,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Fugs,
Dave Gahan,
Tim Buckley,
Alton Ellis,
Marshall Jefferson,
Nirvana,
Crime,
Amon Düül II,
A Certain Ratio,
The Cure,
The Pop Group,
Kenny Larkin,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
DJ Style,
Scion,
John Coltrane,
The Remains,
Tom Boy,
Peter and Kerry,
Donald Byrd,
The Leaves,
Magazine,
Lightning Bolt,
Bronski Beat,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Jimmy McGriff,
Kerri Chandler,
The Neon Judgement,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Residents,
Heaven 17,
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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.