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 Chile and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Terror Squad Feat. Camron to the grime kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Red Lorry Yellow Lorry. All the underground hits.
All Mandrill tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Q65 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yazoo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Josef K,
The Blues Magoos,
Arthur Verocai,
Underground Resistance,
Cecil Taylor,
It's A Beautiful Day,
John Cale,
Johnny Clarke,
Morten Harket,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Wally Richardson,
Lou Reed,
Anthony Braxton,
Amon Düül II,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Swell Maps,
Urselle,
Buzzcocks,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Supertramp,
Stiv Bators,
Robert Görl,
the Soft Cell,
Glambeats Corp.,
Man Parrish,
The Real Kids,
Fear,
Eric Dolphy,
The Misunderstood,
Oneida,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Crispian St. Peters,
Chrome,
Niagra,
The Divine Comedy,
Fad Gadget,
Arcadia,
The Five Americans,
The Velvet Underground,
Cameo,
Unwound,
Boz Scaggs,
Aswad,
Lalo Schifrin,
the Normal,
The Blackbyrds,
Kerri Chandler,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Magazine,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Groovy Waters,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Funkadelic,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Altered Images,
Grauzone,
Iggy Pop,
Darondo,
Parry Music,
Tommy Roe, Tommy Roe, Tommy Roe, Tommy Roe.
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.