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 Romania and from Copenhagen.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 marimba 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 Niagra to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 La Düsseldorf. All the underground hits.
All Dave Gahan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Harry Pussy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 spring reverb and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pet Shop Boys record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lindisfarne,
Ultra Naté,
Matthew Halsall,
Roxy Music,
The Divine Comedy,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Dave Clark Five,
Surgeon,
Slave,
One Last Wish,
Stereo Dub,
Ice-T,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Tremeloes,
Grey Daturas,
Radiohead,
Ossler,
Bobby Byrd,
Massinfluence,
The Gap Band,
R.M.O.,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
X-102,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Desert Stars,
Sam Rivers,
Yaz,
Donny Hathaway,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Ralphi Rosario,
Drexciya,
Parry Music,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Piero Umiliani,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Letta Mbulu,
Jeff Lynne,
Swell Maps,
Model 500,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Avey Tare,
Pet Shop Boys,
Thompson Twins,
The Associates,
Black Bananas,
Vainqueur,
The Knickerbockers,
Gichy Dan,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Smog,
Tomorrow,
The Monks,
The Golliwogs,
Morten Harket,
Unwound,
Whodini,
Barbara Tucker,
John Holt,
A Certain Ratio,
DJ Style,
Henry Cow,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Leaves,
Babytalk, Babytalk, Babytalk, Babytalk.
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.