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 Greece and from Delhi.
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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Newcleus to the jazz 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 Camouflage. All the underground hits.
All Robert Hood tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cameo 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Girls At Our Best! record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Average White Band,
the Soft Cell,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Lightning Bolt,
John Holt,
Sonic Youth,
Iggy Pop,
The Flesh Eaters,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Zero Boys,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Yusef Lateef,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Vladislav Delay,
The Sonics,
The Motions,
Morten Harket,
Black Moon,
Radiohead,
kango's stein massive,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Juan Atkins,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Wire,
Matthew Halsall,
Jeff Mills,
Can,
Stereo Dub,
Roy Ayers,
World's Most,
Anakelly,
Marshall Jefferson,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Swans,
Los Fastidios,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
ABBA,
June of 44,
The Golliwogs,
Pagans,
The Gladiators,
La Düsseldorf,
David Axelrod,
Arthur Verocai,
The Durutti Column,
Kurtis Blow,
Scott Walker,
The Fortunes,
The Litter,
The Tremeloes,
Lalo Schifrin,
John Cale,
Barrington Levy,
Barry Ungar,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Panda Bear,
Lou Christie,
The Remains,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud.
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.