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 Portugal 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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Peter and Kerry to the grunge 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 Crash Course in Science. All the underground hits.
All Cal Tjader tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joensuu 1685 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Silicon Teens record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Monochrome Set,
Nils Olav,
Marine Girls,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
DJ Style,
Flamin' Groovies,
Terrestrial Tones,
Sandy B,
Technova,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Electric Prunes,
Charles Mingus,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Outsiders,
Soft Cell,
Ornette Coleman,
Hashim,
Kool Moe Dee,
Stereo Dub,
the Association,
Cluster,
The Searchers,
Popol Vuh,
Wally Richardson,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Gang Starr,
Scott Walker,
The Techniques,
Sight & Sound,
the Sonics,
The Dave Clark Five,
Kevin Saunderson,
Grandmaster Flash,
New York Dolls,
Bobby Sherman,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Fire Engines,
Gang Green,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Soul II Soul,
The Red Krayola,
Eddi Front,
Terry Callier,
Adolescents,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Michelle Simonal,
Fluxion,
The Young Rascals,
Anakelly,
Kayak,
Zapp,
Young Marble Giants,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Swans,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Severed Heads,
Magma,
Scrapy,
The Alarm Clocks,
Lower 48, Lower 48, Lower 48, Lower 48.
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.