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 Guyana and from Sao Paulo.
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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 synthesizer 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 The Saints to the rock kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Brass Construction. All the underground hits.
All Arthur Verocai tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Avey Tare 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jesper Dahlbäck record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dennis Brown,
Avey Tare,
Adolescents,
Fugazi,
Gang of Four,
Bad Manners,
Jacob Miller,
Wire,
Darondo,
Soft Cell,
Ornette Coleman,
Ponytail,
Robert Wyatt,
The Electric Prunes,
Lou Christie,
Prince Buster,
Anthony Braxton,
The Sound,
The Gap Band,
Scion,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
10cc,
Technova,
The Angels of Light,
DJ Style,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Basic Channel,
The Martian,
Marvin Gaye,
Scan 7,
Tim Buckley,
Kaleidoscope,
Wings,
Parry Music,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
In Retrospect,
Danielle Patucci,
Fear,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Blackbyrds,
Rapeman,
Nick Fraelich,
kango's stein massive,
Infiniti,
Minutemen,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Arab on Radar,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Malaria!,
The Durutti Column,
The Vogues,
The Fall,
Eric Dolphy,
Index,
Leonard Cohen,
Supertramp,
Erasure,
The Grass Roots,
Delon & Dalcan,
Cybotron,
Au Pairs,
Terrestrial Tones,
Ralphi Rosario, Ralphi Rosario, Ralphi Rosario, Ralphi Rosario.
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.