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 Gambia and from Seoul.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Matthew Bourne to the techno 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 Black Bananas. All the underground hits.
All Jeff Mills tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fifty Foot Hose record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Maleditus Sound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Cure,
Amon Düül II,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Half Japanese,
The Wake,
Monks,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Kinks,
Sound Behaviour,
Massinfluence,
Franke,
Simply Red,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Peter & Gordon,
Johnny Osbourne,
Sun City Girls,
Rhythm & Sound,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Reagan Youth,
Max Romeo,
Tommy Roe,
Carl Craig,
Grandmaster Flash,
Marshall Jefferson,
Oneida,
Boogie Down Productions,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Real Kids,
Bronski Beat,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Misunderstood,
T. Rex,
Q and Not U,
Donny Hathaway,
Todd Terry,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Gong,
The Standells,
Con Funk Shun,
F. McDonald,
Radiohead,
The Searchers,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Pierre Henry,
The Zeros,
The Residents,
Essential Logic,
Moby Grape,
Buzzcocks,
Eric Copeland,
Pussy Galore,
Jesper Dahlback,
Hashim,
Grauzone,
The Blackbyrds,
Fear,
The Dirtbombs,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Motions,
Sam Rivers, Sam Rivers, Sam Rivers, Sam Rivers.
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.