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 Korea South and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 synthesizer 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 Chrome to the dance kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Faraquet. All the underground hits.
All Technova tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Chocolate Watch Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tubeway Army record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Mummies,
10cc,
Ken Boothe,
Talk Talk,
Vladislav Delay,
Soulsonic Force,
The Remains,
Duran Duran,
Sister Nancy,
Don Cherry,
Bobby Womack,
Camouflage,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Moleskins,
The Raincoats,
Livin' Joy,
Kayak,
Rotary Connection,
Au Pairs,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Sonny Sharrock,
Blake Baxter,
Sight & Sound,
Toni Rubio,
Lightning Bolt,
Davy DMX,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Smiths,
Yazoo,
the Fania All-Stars,
In Retrospect,
Echospace,
Fat Boys,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Harry Pussy,
Hoover,
Lalann,
Radio Birdman,
Charles Mingus,
The Kinks,
Hasil Adkins,
Marvin Gaye,
Silicon Teens,
Altered Images,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Japan,
Rapeman,
Royal Trux,
Blossom Toes,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Q and Not U,
The Dead C,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Leonard Cohen,
Iggy Pop,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Interpol,
Dennis Brown,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The J.B.'s,
The Saints, The Saints, The Saints, The Saints.
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.