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 Brunei and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Lebanon Hanover to the punk 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 Sunsets and Hearts. All the underground hits.
All Boredoms tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Janne Schatter record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lebanon Hanover record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gang Green,
Marmalade,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Moebius,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Sparks,
Godley & Creme,
Blossom Toes,
Ludus,
B.T. Express,
Neu!,
The Blues Magoos,
Malaria!,
Arthur Verocai,
Dead Boys,
Magazine,
China Crisis,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
T.S.O.L.,
Boredoms,
The Neon Judgement,
Adolescents,
Pole,
Graham Central Station,
Lower 48,
Isaac Hayes,
the Normal,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Fortunes,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Aural Exciters,
Amon Düül,
Lightning Bolt,
Slave,
David Bowie,
Lucky Dragons,
Yaz,
Freddie Wadling,
Stereo Dub,
Jeff Lynne,
Accadde A,
Chris Corsano,
Liliput,
Organ,
The Dirtbombs,
The Detroit Cobras,
Thompson Twins,
Lalo Schifrin,
Danielle Patucci,
Altered Images,
Jawbox,
Nick Fraelich,
Gang of Four,
Gang Starr,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Red Krayola,
Sound Behaviour,
Buzzcocks,
Trumans Water,
Black Bananas,
Sugar Minott, Sugar Minott, Sugar Minott, Sugar Minott.
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.