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 United Kingdom and from Spokane.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Siouxsie and the Banshees to the disco 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 The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band. All the underground hits.
All Ash Ra Tempel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Schoolly D record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Arthur Verocai record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gang Gang Dance,
Smog,
Royal Trux,
The Doobie Brothers,
Drexciya,
The Grass Roots,
The Fire Engines,
New Age Steppers,
Newcleus,
Reuben Wilson,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Seeds,
Clear Light,
Al Stewart,
Crime,
Masters at Work,
Wasted Youth,
Swell Maps,
Tears for Fears,
Ultimate Spinach,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Pantytec,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Icehouse,
Ice-T,
Inner City,
DNA,
UT,
World's Most,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
MC5,
Trumans Water,
Organ,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Nick Fraelich,
Circle Jerks,
Lightning Bolt,
One Last Wish,
The Selecter,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Star Department,
John Coltrane,
Roxy Music,
Eve St. Jones,
the Fania All-Stars,
Bobby Womack,
Bronski Beat,
Arthur Verocai,
Nas,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Hardrive,
Lindisfarne,
Dawn Penn,
The Velvet Underground,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Barracudas,
Half Japanese,
Loose Ends,
Derrick May,
The Red Krayola, The Red Krayola, The Red Krayola, The Red Krayola.
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.