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 Slovenia and from Taipei.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 theremin 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 Altered Images to the disco 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 Wasted Youth. All the underground hits.
All Whodini tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roxette 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Michelle Simonal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Fortunes,
Bad Manners,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Bluetip,
The Martian,
Ken Boothe,
Jeru the Damaja,
Bizarre Inc.,
This Heat,
Audionom,
New Order,
Rapeman,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Scion,
The Dave Clark Five,
Ossler,
UT,
The Young Rascals,
Groovy Waters,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Half Japanese,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Hoover,
Sun Ra,
Mad Mike,
Grey Daturas,
Tres Demented,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
F. McDonald,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Harmonia,
K-Klass,
One Last Wish,
The Index,
Nik Kershaw,
Masters at Work,
Guru Guru,
The Flesh Eaters,
Soul Sonic Force,
Henry Cow,
Essential Logic,
Liliput,
Isaac Hayes,
EPMD,
The Misunderstood,
Eddi Front,
The Neon Judgement,
Adolescents,
Tomorrow,
Amon Düül II,
Rhythm & Sound,
Sandy B,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Absolute Body Control,
T. Rex,
Khruangbin,
The Five Americans,
Joyce Sims,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Barclay James Harvest,
Morten Harket, Morten Harket, Morten Harket, Morten Harket.
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.