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 Turkey 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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Bush Tetras to the funk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Agitation Free. All the underground hits.
All Vladislav Delay tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Peanut Butter Conspiracy 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Infiniti record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lou Reed,
Lakeside,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sonny Sharrock,
Swans,
Alton Ellis,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Tomorrow,
Leonard Cohen,
The Mojo Men,
Howard Jones,
Index,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Bill Wells,
The Blues Magoos,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Beau Brummels,
Jesper Dahlback,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Smoke,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Maleditus Sound,
The Cowsills,
Scion,
David McCallum,
Nils Olav,
New Age Steppers,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Fatback Band,
Blossom Toes,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Barclay James Harvest,
Althea and Donna,
Lalann,
Anakelly,
Reagan Youth,
Maurizio,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Bobbi Humphrey,
the Slits,
Pussy Galore,
Peter and Kerry,
Sight & Sound,
Agitation Free,
Joy Division,
Delta 5,
Rakim,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Kurtis Blow,
Thee Headcoats,
Drexciya,
Deadbeat,
Danielle Patucci,
Suburban Knight,
The United States of America,
Make Up,
Throbbing Gristle,
Urselle,
Harmonia,
Colin Newman, Colin Newman, Colin Newman, Colin Newman.
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.