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 Tanzania and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 mellotron 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 Kevin Saunderson to the punk 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 Flipper. All the underground hits.
All Loose Ends tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every In Retrospect 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a chamberlin 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 snare and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
F. McDonald,
Procol Harum,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
UT,
Subhumans,
The Gun Club,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Graham Central Station,
Colin Newman,
Roxy Music,
Prince Buster,
Fat Boys,
Gastr Del Sol,
Crime,
Fort Wilson Riot,
MDC,
Gil Scott Heron,
Roger Hodgson,
Joey Negro,
Marcia Griffiths,
Scion,
Marmalade,
June Days,
Throbbing Gristle,
Frankie Knuckles,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Grey Daturas,
The Buckinghams,
Drexciya,
KRS-One,
Black Sheep,
The Trojans,
Surgeon,
The Residents,
Josef K,
Lalann,
Lebanon Hanover,
Theoretical Girls,
Buzzcocks,
The Fuzztones,
Nils Olav,
Davy DMX,
The Golliwogs,
The Move,
Oblivians,
Dawn Penn,
The United States of America,
Dave Gahan,
Max Romeo,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Nick Fraelich,
Silicon Teens,
10cc,
Barclay James Harvest,
Warsaw,
Television,
The Angels of Light,
Bauhaus,
Maleditus Sound,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.