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 Turkey and from Hong Kong.
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 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Kaleidoscope to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Boredoms. All the underground hits.
All One Last Wish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alison Limerick record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Amazonics record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Negative Approach,
Pylon,
Joey Negro,
Black Flag,
Thompson Twins,
the Soft Cell,
Johnny Osbourne,
New Age Steppers,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Boz Scaggs,
Isaac Hayes,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Ohio Players,
Cameo,
Brick,
Zapp,
The Black Dice,
Agitation Free,
The Remains,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Zeros,
The Real Kids,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
R.M.O.,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Colin Newman,
Half Japanese,
Swans,
The Sonics,
Black Sheep,
Yusef Lateef,
Eurythmics,
Section 25,
Jeff Mills,
Q65,
Theoretical Girls,
Jacob Miller,
Matthew Bourne,
Jacques Brel,
Eden Ahbez,
Pantaleimon,
Goldenarms,
Schoolly D,
Gregory Isaacs,
David McCallum,
Visage,
Tommy Roe,
Quadrant,
Joe Smooth,
Iggy Pop,
The Knickerbockers,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Spandau Ballet,
Nation of Ulysses,
Gang of Four,
Graham Central Station,
Talk Talk,
Lindisfarne,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse.
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.