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 Norway and from Columbus.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 guitar 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 Eyeless In Gaza to the disco 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 Bizarre Inc.. All the underground hits.
All Mo-Dettes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Major Organ And The Adding Machine 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camberwell Now record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
One Last Wish,
Eve St. Jones,
Isaac Hayes,
Mantronix,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Deakin,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Sällskapet,
Moss Icon,
Sound Behaviour,
Angry Samoans,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Sound,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Associates,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Tommy Roe,
Terry Callier,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
LL Cool J,
Bad Manners,
the Normal,
Leonard Cohen,
Lakeside,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Joensuu 1685,
Mo-Dettes,
Anthony Braxton,
cv313,
The Invisible,
Gabor Szabo,
Motorama,
Wings,
Dead Boys,
Massinfluence,
Hashim,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Siglo XX,
Yaz,
The Shadows of Knight,
Average White Band,
Scott Walker,
Heaven 17,
Camouflage,
The Fortunes,
Guru Guru,
Gastr Del Sol,
Matthew Halsall,
Cal Tjader,
The Knickerbockers,
Godley & Creme,
MC5,
La Düsseldorf,
Whodini,
Bizarre Inc.,
Hasil Adkins,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Terrestrial Tones,
Neu!,
Mark Hollis,
The Doobie Brothers,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Men They Couldn't Hang, The Men They Couldn't Hang, The Men They Couldn't Hang, The Men They Couldn't Hang.
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.