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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 snare 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 Franke to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Larry & the Blue Notes. All the underground hits.
All Hashim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Audionom 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a EPMD record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The New Christs,
Bobby Womack,
Audionom,
The Birthday Party,
Main Source,
Gang Green,
Yusef Lateef,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Toni Rubio,
Robert Wyatt,
UT,
Camouflage,
Neu!,
Basic Channel,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Bill Near,
Grauzone,
Nick Fraelich,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
the Human League,
Kool Moe Dee,
June Days,
Nik Kershaw,
Marine Girls,
Boredoms,
Alphaville,
Agent Orange,
Wings,
Laurel Aitken,
The Fuzztones,
Spoonie Gee,
Desert Stars,
Subhumans,
Erasure,
Aloha Tigers,
Moby Grape,
Porter Ricks,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Henry Cow,
Pylon,
Big Daddy Kane,
Lower 48,
Flash Fearless,
Brand Nubian,
Anakelly,
Sex Pistols,
The Flesh Eaters,
Jeff Lynne,
Sällskapet,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Make Up,
The Toasters,
Lyres,
Second Layer,
B.T. Express,
Althea and Donna,
Lungfish,
The Durutti Column,
Junior Murvin,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
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.