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 Stockholm.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Tears for Fears to the grime kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Durutti Column. All the underground hits.
All The Raincoats tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Johnny Osbourne record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roger Hodgson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pere Ubu,
The Remains,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
the Normal,
Organ,
Lucky Dragons,
Masters at Work,
Sparks,
Nirvana,
Alphaville,
The Beau Brummels,
The Kinks,
Cecil Taylor,
Maleditus Sound,
Scott Walker,
Alice Coltrane,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Kas Product,
Anthony Braxton,
Altered Images,
Harmonia,
Skarface,
Marshall Jefferson,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
James White and The Blacks,
The Monochrome Set,
Pussy Galore,
Toni Rubio,
Eurythmics,
10cc,
The Blackbyrds,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Radio Birdman,
Slave,
Derrick May,
Liliput,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
the Sonics,
Essential Logic,
Niagra,
Pharoah Sanders,
Erykah Badu,
Jacques Brel,
Jacob Miller,
Soul Sonic Force,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Junior Murvin,
Deadbeat,
Deepchord,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Dorothy Ashby,
LL Cool J,
the Bar-Kays,
Agitation Free,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Main Source,
Urselle,
The Move,
Second Layer,
The Human League,
X-101, X-101, X-101, X-101.
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.