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 Monaco and from Sao Paulo.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Cheater Slicks to the electroclash 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 Quadrant. All the underground hits.
All Motorama tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jawbox 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Associates record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb 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 Chocolate Watch Band,
Ultra Naté,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Kenny Larkin,
Yellowson,
Minutemen,
Liliput,
Sexual Harrassment,
Masters at Work,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Tommy Roe,
Arthur Verocai,
The Last Poets,
Malaria!,
Delon & Dalcan,
Donald Byrd,
The Litter,
Ludus,
The Martian,
New Order,
Deadbeat,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Star Department,
The Gap Band,
Kurtis Blow,
James White and The Blacks,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Gang Starr,
Moebius,
Joe Smooth,
Scratch Acid,
Ultimate Spinach,
Charles Mingus,
The Gories,
The Mummies,
Gerry Rafferty,
Fugazi,
Drexciya,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Moody Blues,
The Detroit Cobras,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Trumans Water,
Sun City Girls,
Deepchord,
Von Mondo,
Lou Christie,
The Shadows of Knight,
Junior Murvin,
Cal Tjader,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Vainqueur,
The Leaves,
Alton Ellis,
Lou Reed,
CMW,
Model 500,
F. McDonald,
8 Eyed Spy,
Moss Icon, Moss Icon, Moss Icon, Moss Icon.
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.