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 Yemen and from Winnipeg.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds to the rock 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 Adolescents. All the underground hits.
All Marmalade tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Move 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Zapp record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Skaos,
Grandmaster Flash,
Cluster,
R.M.O.,
The Happenings,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Soft Cell,
Ronnie Foster,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Kool Moe Dee,
Young Marble Giants,
Animal Collective,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Dark Day,
Eric B and Rakim,
Panda Bear,
Echospace,
Todd Terry,
Saccharine Trust,
The Angels of Light,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Jandek,
Bob Dylan,
The Martian,
Mandrill,
Tomorrow,
David McCallum,
Tropical Tobacco,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Agent Orange,
Arthur Verocai,
Bizarre Inc.,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Junior Murvin,
DJ Sneak,
Curtis Mayfield,
Franke,
Hasil Adkins,
Symarip,
Liliput,
Pierre Henry,
Ornette Coleman,
Deepchord,
T.S.O.L.,
Pagans,
Man Eating Sloth,
the Slits,
The Fall,
Parry Music,
Zapp,
Graham Central Station,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Kurtis Blow,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Babytalk,
Robert Hood,
Freddie Wadling,
Ice-T,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Cabaret Voltaire,
10cc, 10cc, 10cc, 10cc.
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.