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 Armenia and from Philadelphia.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Das Ding to the rock 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 Dead Boys. All the underground hits.
All Kas Product tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kas Product record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 theremin and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a 8 Eyed Spy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marine Girls,
In Retrospect,
Chrome,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Marvin Gaye,
Maleditus Sound,
The Count Five,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Quadrant,
Gang Gang Dance,
Blancmange,
Jimmy McGriff,
Funkadelic,
Dead Boys,
Gregory Isaacs,
Monolake,
Amon Düül II,
The Evens,
Bobby Womack,
Hot Snakes,
Peter & Gordon,
Pulsallama,
Can,
Peter and Kerry,
The Five Americans,
Pagans,
Colin Newman,
Underground Resistance,
Avey Tare,
Bronski Beat,
Ten City,
AZ,
Nation of Ulysses,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
kango's stein massive,
Los Fastidios,
Ken Boothe,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Magma,
Gong,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Royal Trux,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
L. Decosne,
Rekid,
The Busters,
Scientists,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Monochrome Set,
Wally Richardson,
Desert Stars,
Accadde A,
Y Pants,
Grey Daturas,
Dual Sessions,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
D'Angelo,
Buzzcocks,
The Raincoats,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Dave Clark Five,
Joyce Sims, Joyce Sims, Joyce Sims, Joyce Sims.
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.