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 Micronesia and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 The Tremeloes to the grime kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Lou Christie. All the underground hits.
All Hardrive tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Organ record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Toasters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Altered Images,
Ice-T,
The Moody Blues,
Juan Atkins,
One Last Wish,
Kas Product,
Gichy Dan,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Ronan,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Sonic Youth,
Ultravox,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Gladiators,
Liliput,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Names,
Curtis Mayfield,
Jimmy McGriff,
Whodini,
Jerry's Kids,
Banda Bassotti,
Bobby Sherman,
Black Pus,
Crooked Eye,
Fat Boys,
The Standells,
The Red Krayola,
Pierre Henry,
Terrestrial Tones,
Sex Pistols,
Piero Umiliani,
Susan Cadogan,
Von Mondo,
Quando Quango,
The Knickerbockers,
Marvin Gaye,
Roxy Music,
Cameo,
The Pretty Things,
The Trojans,
Camberwell Now,
Intrusion,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Sonics,
ABBA,
Peter & Gordon,
The Residents,
U.S. Maple,
The New Christs,
The J.B.'s,
Guru Guru,
Lou Christie,
New York Dolls,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Donny Hathaway,
Angry Samoans,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Chris Corsano,
The Offenders,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.