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 France and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Kaleidoscope to the punk 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 Fire Engines. All the underground hits.
All Harmonia tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eric B and Rakim 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Danielle Patucci record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Associates,
Index,
Ronnie Foster,
Bauhaus,
Metal Thangz,
Pole,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Jacob Miller,
Los Fastidios,
Au Pairs,
Accadde A,
The Fuzztones,
Organ,
Hoover,
Panda Bear,
Skaos,
The Leaves,
These Immortal Souls,
Roger Hodgson,
Donald Byrd,
The Blackbyrds,
Danielle Patucci,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Erykah Badu,
Sam Rivers,
Reuben Wilson,
KRS-One,
Japan,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
cv313,
The Star Department,
The Monks,
Maleditus Sound,
Kevin Saunderson,
Kool Moe Dee,
PIL,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Scientists,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Quando Quango,
Robert Görl,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Idris Muhammad,
The Monochrome Set,
The Wake,
Sparks,
Fat Boys,
Wire,
Swans,
Lalann,
Babytalk,
Jeru the Damaja,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Marcia Griffiths,
Skriet,
Ultra Naté,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Fire Engines,
Porter Ricks,
Sandy B,
Alton Ellis, Alton Ellis, Alton Ellis, Alton Ellis.
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.