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 Swaziland and from London.
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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Aural Exciters to the jazz 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 Qualms. All the underground hits.
All Arcadia tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every James Chance & The Contortions 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aloha Tigers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
D'Angelo,
10cc,
Barbara Tucker,
The J.B.'s,
Metal Thangz,
The Remains,
Section 25,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Dave Clark Five,
Fat Boys,
The Gap Band,
Parry Music,
The Wake,
Arab on Radar,
8 Eyed Spy,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Warren Ellis,
Robert Wyatt,
Cymande,
Yusef Lateef,
Peter & Gordon,
Little Man,
Amon Düül II,
Agent Orange,
Jeff Lynne,
Popol Vuh,
Gang Green,
Yellowson,
The Mummies,
Graham Central Station,
The Durutti Column,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Connie Case,
Eurythmics,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Leaves,
a-ha,
Minny Pops,
Ultravox,
Camberwell Now,
Grandmaster Flash,
Clear Light,
Intrusion,
Sight & Sound,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Count Five,
Young Marble Giants,
Fluxion,
Kevin Saunderson,
Steve Hackett,
Zero Boys,
Black Sheep,
The Offenders,
Joe Finger,
Roxette,
Erykah Badu,
Mandrill,
Quantec,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
FM Einheit, FM Einheit, FM Einheit, FM Einheit.
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.