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 Luxembourg and from Copenhagen.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Mexico City.
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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Lyres to the crunk 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 Parry Music. All the underground hits.
All Jerry Gold Smith tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jeff Mills record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Blancmange record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Alice Coltrane,
B.T. Express,
The Stooges,
The Star Department,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
KRS-One,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Thompson Twins,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Average White Band,
Stereo Dub,
Bobby Byrd,
The Doors,
Marvin Gaye,
Kerri Chandler,
Al Stewart,
The Dirtbombs,
The Modern Lovers,
Matthew Bourne,
Thee Headcoats,
The Last Poets,
In Retrospect,
Amon Düül II,
Todd Rundgren,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Shoche,
Matthew Halsall,
Accadde A,
Anthony Braxton,
The Mojo Men,
Das Ding,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Barry Ungar,
The Slits,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Fluxion,
John Foxx,
Black Pus,
Rosa Yemen,
The United States of America,
The Divine Comedy,
Minnie Riperton,
Depeche Mode,
Black Sheep,
Interpol,
K-Klass,
World's Most,
Royal Trux,
Albert Ayler,
One Last Wish,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Spoonie Gee,
Absolute Body Control,
This Heat,
The Standells,
Magma,
Yellowson,
Fela Kuti,
June of 44,
Television,
The Searchers,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
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.