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 Spain and from Tehran.
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 Calgary and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 China Crisis 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 Avey Tare. All the underground hits.
All Dead Boys tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Johnny Clarke 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 a marimba and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ohio Players,
Unrelated Segments,
Davy DMX,
The Human League,
Lower 48,
The Pretty Things,
Connie Case,
Roy Ayers,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Electric Prunes,
Jeru the Damaja,
Blake Baxter,
Slick Rick,
Yaz,
Nation of Ulysses,
Arthur Verocai,
Fela Kuti,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Suburban Knight,
Procol Harum,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Gabor Szabo,
Lakeside,
Monolake,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Velvet Underground,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Howard Jones,
Wally Richardson,
Easy Going,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Barracudas,
Liliput,
FM Einheit,
Josef K,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Anthony Braxton,
Pole,
UT,
Soul Sonic Force,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Zapp,
Television Personalities,
Wings,
Crispian St. Peters,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Skarface,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Invisible,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Crash Course in Science,
Minnie Riperton,
The Birthday Party,
Basic Channel,
JFA,
Quando Quango,
Bauhaus,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Oneida,
Colin Newman,
Vladislav Delay, Vladislav Delay, Vladislav Delay, Vladislav Delay.
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.