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 Bahrain and from Lille.
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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Stockholm.
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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the oboe 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 Brick to the rap kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Aaron Thompson. All the underground hits.
All Drive Like Jehu tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Theoretical Girls record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a T.S.O.L. record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Terrestrial Tones,
The Velvet Underground,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
the Swans,
New Age Steppers,
Alison Limerick,
Gang of Four,
Blancmange,
Eve St. Jones,
Parry Music,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Charles Mingus,
R.M.O.,
David McCallum,
Yazoo,
Au Pairs,
Rites of Spring,
Lalann,
Technova,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Danielle Patucci,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Agitation Free,
MDC,
Young Marble Giants,
Sandy B,
Quando Quango,
The Names,
Dawn Penn,
The Litter,
Kerri Chandler,
DNA,
Joe Smooth,
T.S.O.L.,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Doobie Brothers,
Royal Trux,
JFA,
the Association,
Josef K,
Nils Olav,
The Standells,
Derrick May,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Skaos,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Suicide,
Panda Bear,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Davy DMX,
The Gun Club,
ABC,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Pharoah Sanders,
Jesper Dahlback,
Marc Almond,
The Flesh Eaters,
Johnny Osbourne,
F. McDonald,
Severed Heads,
The Neon Judgement, The Neon Judgement, The Neon Judgement, The Neon Judgement.
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.