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 Argentina and from Delhi.
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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 organ 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 Star Department to the jazz 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 Andrew Hill. All the underground hits.
All Minny Pops tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kerrie Biddell record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 an oboe and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Erasure record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Silicon Teens,
The Knickerbockers,
the Swans,
Connie Case,
Robert Wyatt,
a-ha,
Matthew Bourne,
The Star Department,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Second Layer,
The Leaves,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Rufus Thomas,
Depeche Mode,
Boz Scaggs,
DJ Style,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Prince Buster,
Alton Ellis,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
MDC,
Alphaville,
Kerrie Biddell,
Toni Rubio,
Oblivians,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Idris Muhammad,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Intrusion,
Crooked Eye,
Trumans Water,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Rotary Connection,
Amazonics,
Scratch Acid,
Marvin Gaye,
New Order,
Skriet,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Technova,
Chrome,
Suicide,
Nico,
X-101,
Throbbing Gristle,
Ludus,
Scott Walker,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Happenings,
X-Ray Spex,
Soul Sonic Force,
Minor Threat,
The Birthday Party,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Chris Corsano,
Harpers Bizarre,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Victims,
The Motions,
The Move,
Dead Boys,
Wings, Wings, Wings, Wings.
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.