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 El Salvador and from Sao Paulo.
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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 harpsichord 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 Max Romeo to the jazz 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 Marc Almond. All the underground hits.
All Scott Walker tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bob Dylan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Crispy Ambulance record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
China Crisis,
Lucky Dragons,
Piero Umiliani,
Crispy Ambulance,
Marc Almond,
48th St. Collective,
Junior Murvin,
Ultravox,
Gang Green,
Juan Atkins,
Quantec,
Scion,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Das Ding,
Blancmange,
Lou Reed,
Bang On A Can,
Delon & Dalcan,
Robert Görl,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Dead Boys,
Bronski Beat,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Jeff Mills,
Agitation Free,
Hardrive,
Schoolly D,
Guru Guru,
Sugar Minott,
Tim Buckley,
Roger Hodgson,
Heaven 17,
PIL,
Duran Duran,
The Move,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Evens,
Michelle Simonal,
D'Angelo,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Walker Brothers,
Moebius,
Aloha Tigers,
R.M.O.,
The Velvet Underground,
Wally Richardson,
Byron Stingily,
Fad Gadget,
The Zeros,
Colin Newman,
Ronnie Foster,
The Smiths,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Soulsonic Force,
Bobby Sherman,
Bootsy Collins,
The Associates,
Lakeside,
Zapp,
Neil Young,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
JFA, JFA, JFA, JFA.
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.