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 Sweden and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 London and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the güiro 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 Jandek to the dance kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Audionom. All the underground hits.
All Iggy Pop tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Colin Newman record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 an oboe and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Television Personalities record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Easy Going,
Livin' Joy,
June Days,
Pierre Henry,
Roger Hodgson,
Eden Ahbez,
Howard Jones,
Audionom,
Slick Rick,
The Vogues,
Bobby Sherman,
Lalann,
Groovy Waters,
Gil Scott Heron,
Morten Harket,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Arab on Radar,
Black Sheep,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Massinfluence,
The Shadows of Knight,
Mad Mike,
X-Ray Spex,
Monks,
DJ Style,
Zero Boys,
Sugar Minott,
Au Pairs,
Funkadelic,
Jacob Miller,
Lucky Dragons,
Gabor Szabo,
Curtis Mayfield,
Marine Girls,
Harry Pussy,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Jawbox,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Grandmaster Flash,
Bob Dylan,
Bad Manners,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Sonics,
Dave Gahan,
The Knickerbockers,
Tim Buckley,
The Victims,
the Fania All-Stars,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Jeff Lynne,
Kool Moe Dee,
Malaria!,
The Skatalites,
The Divine Comedy,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Mojo Men,
Hot Snakes,
Eric B and Rakim,
EPMD,
The Last Poets,
T.S.O.L.,
The Neon Judgement,
Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids.
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.