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 Korea North 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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Jakarta.
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 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 Nile Rodgers 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 Model 500 to the rap 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 Chocolate Watch Band. All the underground hits.
All Prince Buster tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Associates record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 chamberlin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Warren Ellis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Television,
Eurythmics,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Nick Fraelich,
Pussy Galore,
Letta Mbulu,
Pantytec,
Albert Ayler,
Scott Walker,
Ken Boothe,
Ronnie Foster,
Delta 5,
FM Einheit,
The Gap Band,
The Slackers,
Cluster,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Seeds,
Pierre Henry,
MDC,
Brand Nubian,
Crash Course in Science,
Donny Hathaway,
Scion,
The Pretty Things,
ABC,
Stiv Bators,
The Blackbyrds,
The Searchers,
Cameo,
R.M.O.,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Lou Reed,
The Vogues,
Tears for Fears,
Subhumans,
Jeff Lynne,
Vladislav Delay,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Drexciya,
Colin Newman,
Visage,
Half Japanese,
Wally Richardson,
Big Daddy Kane,
Henry Cow,
Aural Exciters,
The American Breed,
Graham Central Station,
The Last Poets,
Tim Buckley,
Amon Düül,
Absolute Body Control,
the Bar-Kays,
Gichy Dan,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Iggy Pop,
Pere Ubu,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Minnie Riperton,
Dave Gahan, Dave Gahan, Dave Gahan, Dave Gahan.
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.