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 Korea South and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Heaven 17 to the jazz 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 Essential Logic. All the underground hits.
All Boredoms tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dennis Brown 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nik Kershaw record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Spoonie Gee,
Roger Hodgson,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Angels of Light,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Swans,
Technova,
Urselle,
Letta Mbulu,
The Buckinghams,
UT,
Peter & Gordon,
Gang Green,
June of 44,
The Offenders,
Boredoms,
Organ,
Arab on Radar,
The American Breed,
the Bar-Kays,
Loose Ends,
Connie Case,
Depeche Mode,
Gichy Dan,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Grass Roots,
The Pretty Things,
Thompson Twins,
The Blackbyrds,
Swell Maps,
Kaleidoscope,
the Human League,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Suicide,
Arthur Verocai,
Franke,
Masters at Work,
Soul Sonic Force,
World's Most,
Model 500,
Soul II Soul,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Ludus,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Grauzone,
JFA,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Doobie Brothers,
Eurythmics,
Toni Rubio,
Pole,
MDC,
Marvin Gaye,
Sällskapet,
Stockholm Monsters,
Schoolly D,
Hoover,
Black Flag,
Q and Not U,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family.
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.