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 Chile and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 spring reverb 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 Stooges to the crunk 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 Roger Hodgson. All the underground hits.
All Sound Behaviour tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Moby Grape 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rahsaan Roland Kirk record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joy Division,
Dave Gahan,
Robert Görl,
Easy Going,
Y Pants,
Rosa Yemen,
The Slits,
Sugar Minott,
LL Cool J,
June Days,
F. McDonald,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Scion,
Graham Central Station,
Delta 5,
Audionom,
The Velvet Underground,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Slackers,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Pop Group,
Sunsets and Hearts,
MC5,
MDC,
Camberwell Now,
Metal Thangz,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Chrome,
Joe Smooth,
Bootsy Collins,
Amazonics,
OOIOO,
Yellowson,
Rod Modell,
Joe Finger,
Cymande,
Lindisfarne,
Lalo Schifrin,
Moby Grape,
Jacques Brel,
Tomorrow,
FM Einheit,
Blake Baxter,
The Fugs,
CMW,
Marmalade,
New Age Steppers,
Derrick Morgan,
Soulsonic Force,
Cal Tjader,
Warsaw,
In Retrospect,
The Stooges,
Sandy B,
The Angels of Light,
Fear,
Grandmaster Flash,
Lakeside,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Porter Ricks,
Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour.
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.