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 Romania and from Jakarta.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
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 Pulsallama to the punk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 EPMD. All the underground hits.
All Lebanon Hanover tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every ABBA record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
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 Pole record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Victims,
Graham Central Station,
The Golliwogs,
Bauhaus,
Lightning Bolt,
Mad Mike,
Zapp,
The Beau Brummels,
Young Marble Giants,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Spoonie Gee,
Qualms,
Hashim,
The Mummies,
One Last Wish,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Accadde A,
Cybotron,
Harry Pussy,
Gregory Isaacs,
CMW,
Erykah Badu,
Freddie Wadling,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Malaria!,
David McCallum,
The Motions,
Brick,
Todd Terry,
Electric Prunes,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Robert Hood,
The Saints,
The Martian,
Bizarre Inc.,
U.S. Maple,
Gang of Four,
The Offenders,
Janne Schatter,
Joensuu 1685,
Yaz,
F. McDonald,
48th St. Collective,
Underground Resistance,
Idris Muhammad,
Skaos,
Rakim,
Pantytec,
Sonny Sharrock,
Alison Limerick,
Infiniti,
Toni Rubio,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Josef K,
Suicide,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Jeff Lynne,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Dead Boys,
John Foxx,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Dirtbombs,
Soul II Soul,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy, The Peanut Butter Conspiracy, The Peanut Butter Conspiracy, The Peanut Butter Conspiracy.
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.