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 Comoros and from Jakarta.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Marine Girls. All the underground hits.
All Agitation Free tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Siouxsie and the Banshees record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Be Bop Deluxe record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
This Heat,
Lower 48,
Slave,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Eric B and Rakim,
Infiniti,
Brothers Johnson,
Joe Finger,
The Techniques,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Freddie Wadling,
Marmalade,
Lightning Bolt,
Bill Wells,
Urselle,
PIL,
Robert Görl,
Crash Course in Science,
Jacob Miller,
Scott Walker,
The Kinks,
Yellowson,
The Saints,
Don Cherry,
Sight & Sound,
Soul II Soul,
U.S. Maple,
The Move,
The Count Five,
Adolescents,
Blossom Toes,
Reagan Youth,
Tropical Tobacco,
a-ha,
Lucky Dragons,
The American Breed,
Tommy Roe,
Tubeway Army,
Q and Not U,
Soulsonic Force,
Rufus Thomas,
Bluetip,
The Blackbyrds,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Boogie Down Productions,
Terrestrial Tones,
Letta Mbulu,
Joey Negro,
Lee Hazlewood,
Funkadelic,
Hot Snakes,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Walker Brothers,
Hoover,
The Cure,
Joe Smooth,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Popol Vuh,
The Misunderstood,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Piero Umiliani,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Cramps,
Sällskapet, Sällskapet, Sällskapet, Sällskapet.
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.