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 Togo and from Tehran.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Skriet to the techno 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 Robert Görl. All the underground hits.
All Negative Approach tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every 10cc 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delon & Dalcan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Ossler,
Marine Girls,
Janne Schatter,
Freddie Wadling,
Sex Pistols,
Lucky Dragons,
Pussy Galore,
ABC,
Charles Mingus,
Scott Walker,
Von Mondo,
Roxy Music,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Franke,
Swans,
Matthew Bourne,
Albert Ayler,
Echospace,
Q and Not U,
Godley & Creme,
Lower 48,
The Techniques,
Black Sheep,
Lou Christie,
Stereo Dub,
Model 500,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Laurel Aitken,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Joe Smooth,
Vainqueur,
Yellowson,
The Slackers,
Suicide,
Panda Bear,
D'Angelo,
48th St. Collective,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Essential Logic,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Trojans,
Minnie Riperton,
Banda Bassotti,
Bang On A Can,
Arthur Verocai,
Brick,
Skarface,
The Victims,
Moss Icon,
Wally Richardson,
Circle Jerks,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Dave Clark Five,
Animal Collective,
Gang Starr,
The Divine Comedy,
The Dirtbombs,
Minor Threat,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Gories,
Fluxion,
Toni Rubio,
The Music Machine, The Music Machine, The Music Machine, The Music Machine.
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.