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 Thailand and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Jerry's Kids to the disco kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Thompson Twins. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Vaughan Mason & Crew record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Faust record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Easy Going,
Qualms,
Kaleidoscope,
Cameo,
MDC,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Robert Wyatt,
Fluxion,
The Velvet Underground,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Fortunes,
David McCallum,
Flamin' Groovies,
Rites of Spring,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Dirtbombs,
The New Christs,
The Blackbyrds,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Walker Brothers,
Fad Gadget,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Jeff Mills,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Country Teasers,
the Germs,
Vladislav Delay,
Blancmange,
Andrew Hill,
KRS-One,
Banda Bassotti,
Lou Reed,
The Moody Blues,
Pagans,
Al Stewart,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Eric B and Rakim,
Sam Rivers,
Todd Terry,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Roxette,
Eurythmics,
Patti Smith,
Yusef Lateef,
The Gories,
Yellowson,
Simply Red,
Suburban Knight,
The Happenings,
Lindisfarne,
Kerri Chandler,
Eddi Front,
Boredoms,
The Gap Band,
Lyres,
Maurizio,
The Star Department,
MC5, MC5, MC5, MC5.
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.