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 Bhutan and from Mumbai.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Roxette to the techno kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Agitation Free. All the underground hits.
All Ralphi Rosario tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Severed Heads record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
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 Porter Ricks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Smog,
Mo-Dettes,
Bauhaus,
Lou Reed,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Malaria!,
Derrick May,
Theoretical Girls,
Connie Case,
Suburban Knight,
Bootsy Collins,
The Pretty Things,
Index,
Kurtis Blow,
Rhythm & Sound,
Stockholm Monsters,
Rosa Yemen,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Mars,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Buckinghams,
Underground Resistance,
Skaos,
The Sonics,
The Alarm Clocks,
Lucky Dragons,
Lower 48,
Soulsonic Force,
The Leaves,
Funky Four + One,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Deepchord,
DJ Style,
Donny Hathaway,
Organ,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Andrew Hill,
The Cowsills,
LL Cool J,
Erykah Badu,
Audionom,
Brick,
Piero Umiliani,
The Fugs,
Sandy B,
Eric B and Rakim,
Isaac Hayes,
Nico,
David Axelrod,
The New Christs,
Neil Young,
Amon Düül II,
Rakim,
Robert Wyatt,
Ken Boothe,
Chrome,
Eve St. Jones,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Intrusion, Intrusion, Intrusion, Intrusion.
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.