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 Tunisia and from Houston.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 marimba 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 Kenny Larkin to the grime kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 The Count Five. All the underground hits.
All The Skatalites tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joe Smooth record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fort Wilson Riot record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Television,
Kerri Chandler,
Surgeon,
Lebanon Hanover,
Suicide,
Hasil Adkins,
Derrick May,
Pere Ubu,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Cymande,
Basic Channel,
Deadbeat,
Yusef Lateef,
The Names,
Funky Four + One,
Lindisfarne,
Theoretical Girls,
Q65,
Gang Green,
Gong,
Bad Manners,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Sound Behaviour,
Avey Tare,
The Move,
Eve St. Jones,
Lucky Dragons,
Black Flag,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Dave Gahan,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Albert Ayler,
Sixth Finger,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
John Holt,
Panda Bear,
Joyce Sims,
Grauzone,
L. Decosne,
Liliput,
The Saints,
Godley & Creme,
Nik Kershaw,
Shoche,
The Misunderstood,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Yaz,
The New Christs,
Stereo Dub,
Brass Construction,
Pantaleimon,
Matthew Halsall,
The Invisible,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Angry Samoans,
Neu!,
Glambeats Corp.,
Wolf Eyes,
Alison Limerick,
Scratch Acid,
The Modern Lovers,
Camberwell Now,
Groovy Waters, Groovy Waters, Groovy Waters, Groovy Waters.
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.