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 Jordan and from Bremen.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Delhi.
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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Von Mondo to the crunk 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 Delon & Dalcan. All the underground hits.
All Kayak tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Slits 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Donny Hathaway record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Frankie Knuckles,
Rekid,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Procol Harum,
Lindisfarne,
Groovy Waters,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Sun City Girls,
Robert Hood,
Symarip,
Ituana,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Ralphi Rosario,
Rhythm & Sound,
Oblivians,
LL Cool J,
Letta Mbulu,
Mo-Dettes,
The Tremeloes,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Dual Sessions,
The Sound,
Black Sheep,
Henry Cow,
Surgeon,
The Music Machine,
Jeff Lynne,
Mad Mike,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Offenders,
EPMD,
Sight & Sound,
Talk Talk,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Unrelated Segments,
Zero Boys,
Jawbox,
Gang of Four,
Clear Light,
Barclay James Harvest,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Deakin,
Ten City,
the Swans,
Ultimate Spinach,
Michelle Simonal,
The Black Dice,
Chrome,
Brick,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Rakim,
Jeru the Damaja,
Rotary Connection,
Thee Headcoats,
Brand Nubian,
Susan Cadogan,
Maleditus Sound,
The Pop Group,
Slick Rick,
Infiniti, Infiniti, Infiniti, Infiniti.
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.