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 Uganda and from Hong Kong.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 theremin 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 Lyres to the rap 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 Blancmange. All the underground hits.
All cv313 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Smog record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Music Machine record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Howard Jones,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
New York Dolls,
The Pretty Things,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Khruangbin,
Derrick May,
Kas Product,
The Seeds,
Anthony Braxton,
PIL,
Urselle,
Avey Tare,
Ossler,
Scion,
Gregory Isaacs,
Lucky Dragons,
Thompson Twins,
The Invisible,
Wire,
Dorothy Ashby,
Joe Finger,
Gil Scott Heron,
The J.B.'s,
The Martian,
Index,
The Cure,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Dave Gahan,
Joe Smooth,
Henry Cow,
Radiopuhelimet,
Crispy Ambulance,
Main Source,
Country Teasers,
Big Daddy Kane,
Nas,
Soft Cell,
Basic Channel,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Beau Brummels,
Crime,
the Normal,
Charles Mingus,
Deadbeat,
Public Image Ltd.,
Depeche Mode,
Morten Harket,
The Remains,
The New Christs,
Suicide,
Judy Mowatt,
The Blues Magoos,
Jeru the Damaja,
The American Breed,
Bob Dylan,
Bootsy Collins,
The Knickerbockers,
Mission of Burma, Mission of Burma, Mission of Burma, Mission of Burma.
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.