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 Iran and from Tokyo.
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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Vainqueur to the jazz 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 Wire. All the underground hits.
All New Age Steppers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Procol Harum 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Derrick Morgan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Angels of Light,
Fela Kuti,
Easy Going,
Little Man,
The Buckinghams,
Eden Ahbez,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Slick Rick,
X-101,
Neil Young,
The Zeros,
Amon Düül,
Cameo,
Thompson Twins,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Pagans,
Agent Orange,
Skarface,
The Gladiators,
Skaos,
Dark Day,
Nick Fraelich,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Barracudas,
Dorothy Ashby,
John Cale,
Radio Birdman,
Blake Baxter,
Delta 5,
Sexual Harrassment,
This Heat,
Grauzone,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
DNA,
Dead Boys,
Erasure,
Rod Modell,
Jeff Lynne,
Intrusion,
Jerry's Kids,
Deepchord,
Donny Hathaway,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Sonny Sharrock,
Henry Cow,
Lalann,
John Lydon,
the Soft Cell,
Siglo XX,
Aloha Tigers,
Ossler,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Anthony Braxton,
Con Funk Shun,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Nirvana,
Jeff Mills,
The Selecter,
Buzzcocks,
Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen.
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.