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 Spain and from Shanghai.
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 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Lagos.
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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the guitar 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 Make Up 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 Blancmange. All the underground hits.
All The Mummies tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sandy B record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a New York Dolls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fort Wilson Riot,
Pantaleimon,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Jeff Lynne,
Scan 7,
Lungfish,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Minor Threat,
Colin Newman,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Radiopuhelimet,
Delon & Dalcan,
Kerri Chandler,
Visage,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Dual Sessions,
Cal Tjader,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Fire Engines,
Todd Terry,
The Monochrome Set,
The Modern Lovers,
Barbara Tucker,
K-Klass,
Crime,
Angry Samoans,
Rod Modell,
Bad Manners,
Patti Smith,
The Dead C,
Lalann,
Excepter,
Lou Christie,
Barry Ungar,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
EPMD,
Easy Going,
The Grass Roots,
The Knickerbockers,
Niagra,
Pulsallama,
Tomorrow,
Cybotron,
Tropical Tobacco,
Rapeman,
Peter & Gordon,
Von Mondo,
June of 44,
Erasure,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Human League,
Lyres,
The Slits,
10cc,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Unrelated Segments,
Blake Baxter,
Peter and Kerry,
Roger Hodgson,
Lalo Schifrin,
Joyce Sims,
The Cowsills,
Section 25,
The Techniques, The Techniques, The Techniques, The Techniques.
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.