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 Georgia and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1961 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Bremen.
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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the oboe 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 Groovy Waters to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Carl Craig. All the underground hits.
All Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Brass Construction record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Human League record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
LL Cool J,
Japan,
Adolescents,
Oblivians,
Robert Görl,
Rekid,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Johnny Osbourne,
Vainqueur,
Panda Bear,
Main Source,
Lee Hazlewood,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Slave,
Warren Ellis,
Tropical Tobacco,
Jacques Brel,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Trojans,
Michelle Simonal,
K-Klass,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
ABBA,
The Cowsills,
Rites of Spring,
The Motions,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Howard Jones,
FM Einheit,
Josef K,
Stetsasonic,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Surgeon,
The Velvet Underground,
David Bowie,
Traffic Nightmare,
Lakeside,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Fall,
Radio Birdman,
Archie Shepp,
Fat Boys,
Crispy Ambulance,
Donny Hathaway,
Bizarre Inc.,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Danielle Patucci,
Rotary Connection,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Five Americans,
Chris Corsano,
Quantec,
Unrelated Segments,
Gastr Del Sol,
Skriet,
Deadbeat,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Moby Grape,
The Birthday Party,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Joey Negro, Joey Negro, Joey Negro, Joey Negro.
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.