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 Taiwan and from Mexico City.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Faust to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Quando Quango. All the underground hits.
All David McCallum tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fugazi 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bluetip record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roger Hodgson,
Pharoah Sanders,
Accadde A,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Depeche Mode,
Piero Umiliani,
Al Stewart,
Judy Mowatt,
Ohio Players,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
A Certain Ratio,
Shoche,
Ronnie Foster,
Swans,
Soft Machine,
Nico,
World's Most,
Sällskapet,
Minny Pops,
Ituana,
The Pretty Things,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Procol Harum,
Kaleidoscope,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Stetsasonic,
Kurtis Blow,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Curtis Mayfield,
Neil Young,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Radio Birdman,
The Shadows of Knight,
Young Marble Giants,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
June Days,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Cowsills,
Spandau Ballet,
Girls At Our Best!,
John Foxx,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Litter,
The Divine Comedy,
The Black Dice,
Amazonics,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Gastr Del Sol,
CMW,
The Blues Magoos,
Arthur Verocai,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Supertramp,
Echospace,
Iggy Pop,
Rites of Spring,
X-102,
The Victims, The Victims, The Victims, The Victims.
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.