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 Cameroon and from Glasgow.
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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 theremin 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 Al Stewart to the disco kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Sonny Sharrock. All the underground hits.
All Tres Demented tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Minnie Riperton 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yusef Lateef record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Little Man,
Marine Girls,
Pantytec,
Country Teasers,
Scion,
China Crisis,
The J.B.'s,
The Cosmic Jokers,
John Foxx,
Michelle Simonal,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Bang On A Can,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Bobby Byrd,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Malaria!,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Ludus,
Cybotron,
Morten Harket,
Jeff Lynne,
James White and The Blacks,
Faraquet,
Eve St. Jones,
Al Stewart,
The Star Department,
Minny Pops,
Don Cherry,
Main Source,
B.T. Express,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Terry Callier,
Judy Mowatt,
Joe Smooth,
Youth Brigade,
Y Pants,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Agitation Free,
Yusef Lateef,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Durutti Column,
Audionom,
The Evens,
Ponytail,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Babytalk,
Roxy Music,
X-Ray Spex,
Delon & Dalcan,
U.S. Maple,
Wings,
The Sonics,
The Victims,
Qualms,
Tommy Roe,
Graham Central Station,
Ossler,
Hashim,
Scratch Acid,
T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L..
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.