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 Mexico 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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 rhodes 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 Drive Like Jehu to the grunge kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Organ. All the underground hits.
All Neil Young tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wire record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sandy B record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Swans,
Ten City,
Cameo,
Aswad,
The Zeros,
D'Angelo,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Jacob Miller,
The Fortunes,
Ultra Naté,
Sparks,
John Foxx,
Deepchord,
Drive Like Jehu,
Outsiders,
Brass Construction,
Flash Fearless,
Hoover,
Kerrie Biddell,
Banda Bassotti,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Chrome,
Marvin Gaye,
Parry Music,
The Mojo Men,
Derrick Morgan,
L. Decosne,
Rotary Connection,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Selecter,
kango's stein massive,
Davy DMX,
Dead Boys,
Bobby Byrd,
Darondo,
Moebius,
Jerry's Kids,
Girls At Our Best!,
Radio Birdman,
Juan Atkins,
Cheater Slicks,
Thee Headcoats,
The Star Department,
Qualms,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Skriet,
Terrestrial Tones,
Negative Approach,
the Soft Cell,
X-102,
Index,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Sexual Harrassment,
Neu!,
Groovy Waters,
Bizarre Inc.,
James White and The Blacks,
The Pretty Things,
Funky Four + One,
Oblivians, Oblivians, Oblivians, Oblivians.
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.