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 Samoa and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Accra.
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 spring reverb 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 Q65 to the grime kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Stockholm Monsters. All the underground hits.
All A Flock of Seagulls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mad Mike record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Icehouse record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kayak,
Tubeway Army,
New Order,
Dual Sessions,
The Grass Roots,
Nico,
MDC,
Terrestrial Tones,
Gil Scott Heron,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
New York Dolls,
Joe Finger,
The Fuzztones,
Deepchord,
Harpers Bizarre,
Sugar Minott,
Funky Four + One,
Von Mondo,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Vainqueur,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Desert Stars,
Avey Tare,
Joey Negro,
Minny Pops,
Average White Band,
Man Eating Sloth,
Scientists,
a-ha,
Scan 7,
Black Pus,
Delon & Dalcan,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Peter & Gordon,
Sixth Finger,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Real Kids,
Agitation Free,
CMW,
Sonic Youth,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Todd Terry,
Zapp,
Groovy Waters,
Gregory Isaacs,
Interpol,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Eurythmics,
Technova,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Warsaw,
Lyres,
Albert Ayler,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Slackers,
Echospace,
X-101,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Kerrie Biddell,
Mandrill,
Dawn Penn,
Rotary Connection,
Spandau Ballet, Spandau Ballet, Spandau Ballet, Spandau Ballet.
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.