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 Costa Rica and from Milan.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 marimba 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 Josef K to the dance 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 Todd Rundgren. All the underground hits.
All Swans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jeff Mills record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 clarinet and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Henry Cow record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Doors,
FM Einheit,
Ronnie Foster,
The Moody Blues,
Procol Harum,
The Toasters,
The Fugs,
Sexual Harrassment,
LL Cool J,
The Grass Roots,
Motorama,
New York Dolls,
D'Angelo,
Rufus Thomas,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Nik Kershaw,
Los Fastidios,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Mission of Burma,
The Cowsills,
Hot Snakes,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Sun Ra,
Hardrive,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Guru Guru,
Vainqueur,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Smiths,
The Gap Band,
Kas Product,
La Düsseldorf,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Gories,
Derrick May,
Todd Terry,
Aaron Thompson,
Stockholm Monsters,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Standells,
Prince Buster,
Idris Muhammad,
Soul Sonic Force,
Alphaville,
The Residents,
Althea and Donna,
Pierre Henry,
Bootsy Collins,
Joy Division,
Easy Going,
Aural Exciters,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Josef K,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
10cc,
Q65,
Maleditus Sound,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Goldenarms,
Fifty Foot Hose, Fifty Foot Hose, Fifty Foot Hose, Fifty Foot Hose.
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.