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 Botswana 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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Mumbai.
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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Terrestrial Tones to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Sam Rivers. All the underground hits.
All Piero Umiliani tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alphaville record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Young Marble Giants record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Sugar Minott,
Hashim,
World's Most,
Essential Logic,
Terry Callier,
Camberwell Now,
Radiohead,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Happenings,
Alton Ellis,
Ossler,
Wally Richardson,
Traffic Nightmare,
Kas Product,
Kurtis Blow,
The Standells,
The Skatalites,
Pierre Henry,
Cheater Slicks,
Half Japanese,
Graham Central Station,
Big Daddy Kane,
Scan 7,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Fuzztones,
Fugazi,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Joensuu 1685,
Marmalade,
Can,
The Evens,
Peter & Gordon,
Gabor Szabo,
Slick Rick,
Todd Rundgren,
Moby Grape,
Agitation Free,
Sällskapet,
Von Mondo,
The Golliwogs,
Mandrill,
Alice Coltrane,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Names,
The Buckinghams,
Sister Nancy,
Soft Cell,
AZ,
Kevin Saunderson,
Scrapy,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Simply Red,
Average White Band,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Rakim,
Isaac Hayes,
Fluxion,
Bush Tetras,
Kenny Larkin,
Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz.
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.