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 Slovenia and from Cairo.
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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Calgary.
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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Graham Central Station to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Angels of Light & Akron/Family. All the underground hits.
All The Fall tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Stereo Dub record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Human League,
Swell Maps,
Aaron Thompson,
Mark Hollis,
Max Romeo,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Kerri Chandler,
Mission of Burma,
Japan,
Das Ding,
Von Mondo,
Scion,
Pagans,
Nation of Ulysses,
Suburban Knight,
New Order,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Nick Fraelich,
Piero Umiliani,
Traffic Nightmare,
Reagan Youth,
Yusef Lateef,
Black Moon,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Connie Case,
Nico,
Make Up,
The Slackers,
The Dead C,
The Doobie Brothers,
Darondo,
Rotary Connection,
Joy Division,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Mr. Review,
Depeche Mode,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Stetsasonic,
U.S. Maple,
Joe Finger,
Bobby Byrd,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Pharoah Sanders,
Marine Girls,
Underground Resistance,
Main Source,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Mars,
Jacob Miller,
the Germs,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Raincoats,
Kenny Larkin,
Spandau Ballet,
The Gap Band,
Barbara Tucker,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Mary Jane Girls,
Interpol,
Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown.
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.