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 Vietnam and from Salvador.
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 1962 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Edmonton.
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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Bauhaus to the rock kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Neu!. All the underground hits.
All The Velvet Underground tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gary Puckett & The Union Gap record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Negative Approach record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Sonics,
Funky Four + One,
Boz Scaggs,
Second Layer,
JFA,
The American Breed,
Charles Mingus,
Lyres,
The Smiths,
Todd Rundgren,
The Detroit Cobras,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Cybotron,
Lungfish,
Pussy Galore,
Sun City Girls,
Silicon Teens,
Scan 7,
The Star Department,
Kool Moe Dee,
Soulsonic Force,
UT,
Terrestrial Tones,
Connie Case,
Piero Umiliani,
Ronan,
Grandmaster Flash,
KRS-One,
Mandrill,
Deadbeat,
Tears for Fears,
Arthur Verocai,
Juan Atkins,
Ken Boothe,
The Young Rascals,
Janne Schatter,
Altered Images,
Bush Tetras,
Guru Guru,
Average White Band,
Cymande,
R.M.O.,
Dead Boys,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Pet Shop Boys,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Camberwell Now,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Rod Modell,
Tom Boy,
Soul II Soul,
Reuben Wilson,
Anthony Braxton,
Metal Thangz,
H. Thieme,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Section 25,
Eric Copeland,
Stetsasonic,
Au Pairs,
Livin' Joy,
Magma, Magma, Magma, Magma.
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.