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 Switzerland and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise show in London.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Eric Copeland to the funk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Sun City Girls. All the underground hits.
All Neu! tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alice Coltrane record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Swans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ash Ra Tempel,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Camouflage,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Flash Fearless,
The Fire Engines,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Ronan,
Patti Smith,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Divine Comedy,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Rufus Thomas,
Toni Rubio,
The Skatalites,
Scratch Acid,
Public Enemy,
Fear,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Silicon Teens,
Pantytec,
June of 44,
Soul II Soul,
Outsiders,
Alison Limerick,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Lakeside,
Unrelated Segments,
Sun City Girls,
Minor Threat,
Drive Like Jehu,
Massinfluence,
the Fania All-Stars,
New York Dolls,
Amon Düül,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Jeff Lynne,
John Coltrane,
Supertramp,
The American Breed,
Nas,
Essential Logic,
Maleditus Sound,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Soul Sonic Force,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Vogues,
Masters at Work,
Sam Rivers,
Ralphi Rosario,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Bronski Beat,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Eurythmics,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Mars,
Monolake,
Charles Mingus,
Bob Dylan,
Bobby Byrd,
Henry Cow,
Rod Modell,
The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band.
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.