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 Turkmenistan and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Q65 to the punk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 AZ. All the underground hits.
All Liaisons Dangereuses tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mad Mike 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Searchers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Soft Cell,
Kool Moe Dee,
David McCallum,
Boz Scaggs,
Main Source,
Section 25,
Moby Grape,
Faust,
Pierre Henry,
Oneida,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Thompson Twins,
Half Japanese,
Soft Machine,
Soulsonic Force,
Gerry Rafferty,
Agitation Free,
The Mojo Men,
John Foxx,
Liliput,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Can,
the Human League,
These Immortal Souls,
Archie Shepp,
The New Christs,
Alison Limerick,
Minny Pops,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Das Ding,
Lalann,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Roxette,
Mo-Dettes,
Reuben Wilson,
Pantytec,
Q65,
kango's stein massive,
Minutemen,
Suicide,
The Sound,
The Evens,
Sugar Minott,
The Seeds,
Excepter,
Aloha Tigers,
Eric Dolphy,
Gang Green,
Dark Day,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Alice Coltrane,
Skaos,
Pulsallama,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Scott Walker, Scott Walker, Scott Walker, Scott Walker.
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.