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 Fiji and from Johannesburg.
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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Eddi Front to the grime 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 Sixth Finger. All the underground hits.
All The Standells tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Negative Approach record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 güiro and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gang Gang Dance record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DNA,
Soft Machine,
Kerrie Biddell,
Ultra Naté,
Pantaleimon,
Television Personalities,
Bootsy Collins,
Moss Icon,
Avey Tare,
Qualms,
Eurythmics,
Nirvana,
The Slits,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Steve Hackett,
Grey Daturas,
The Pretty Things,
Rhythm & Sound,
Dual Sessions,
Anakelly,
Traffic Nightmare,
Eden Ahbez,
The United States of America,
ABBA,
Joyce Sims,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
DJ Style,
Groovy Waters,
Lower 48,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Smog,
Derrick Morgan,
Guru Guru,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Lungfish,
Leonard Cohen,
R.M.O.,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Echospace,
Depeche Mode,
Dorothy Ashby,
Zapp,
Soft Cell,
Jerry Gold Smith,
the Bar-Kays,
DJ Sneak,
The Names,
Visage,
Marine Girls,
Make Up,
Black Flag,
Amon Düül,
Ludus,
Altered Images,
Charles Mingus,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Mission of Burma,
Camberwell Now,
Franke,
Neu!,
Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance.
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.