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 Malta 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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Scientists to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 The Grass Roots. All the underground hits.
All Flash Fearless tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Unwound 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a DJ Style record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Normal,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
World's Most,
Kaleidoscope,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Moebius,
Q65,
Camouflage,
X-Ray Spex,
These Immortal Souls,
Dual Sessions,
Unwound,
E-Dancer,
The Kinks,
Lucky Dragons,
Brothers Johnson,
Lou Reed,
Stetsasonic,
The Motions,
Radiohead,
8 Eyed Spy,
Wasted Youth,
Smog,
Jawbox,
Josef K,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Zeros,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Cowsills,
New Order,
The Doors,
Arthur Verocai,
Ultravox,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Nation of Ulysses,
Sex Pistols,
CMW,
Swans,
Khruangbin,
Joy Division,
Deakin,
Yaz,
Jacob Miller,
T.S.O.L.,
Simply Red,
Public Enemy,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Big Daddy Kane,
Talk Talk,
Chris Corsano,
Dawn Penn,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Ice-T,
Brick,
Johnny Osbourne,
Mo-Dettes,
Brass Construction,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Janne Schatter,
Morten Harket,
Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci.
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.