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 Bhutan and from Milan.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Monochrome Set to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Gabor Szabo. All the underground hits.
All Siouxsie and the Banshees tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Theoretical Girls 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Tremeloes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Banda Bassotti,
Radiopuhelimet,
Jesper Dahlback,
Soft Machine,
X-102,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
DNA,
Warren Ellis,
Los Fastidios,
Dawn Penn,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Adolescents,
Mandrill,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Matthew Bourne,
Agitation Free,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Bizarre Inc.,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Rotary Connection,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Thee Headcoats,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Zapp,
The Knickerbockers,
Roy Ayers,
Terrestrial Tones,
Peter and Kerry,
Sparks,
The Star Department,
Isaac Hayes,
Deadbeat,
Nation of Ulysses,
Quando Quango,
Patti Smith,
Zero Boys,
The Associates,
Gang of Four,
Shoche,
Audionom,
Grandmaster Flash,
Maleditus Sound,
Jeff Lynne,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Girls At Our Best!,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
UT,
Ituana,
The Fugs,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The American Breed,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Slackers,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
ABC,
Visage,
JFA,
Swell Maps,
Ronan,
Pere Ubu, Pere Ubu, Pere Ubu, Pere Ubu.
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.