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 Spain and from Lagos.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 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 Icehouse to the disco kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 New Order. All the underground hits.
All Technova tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Leonard Cohen 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Terrestrial Tones record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Isaac Hayes,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Youth Brigade,
Pere Ubu,
Malaria!,
Boredoms,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Pantytec,
Franke,
Buzzcocks,
Beasts of Bourbon,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Spandau Ballet,
Ponytail,
Flash Fearless,
Bluetip,
Sonny Sharrock,
Subhumans,
Bauhaus,
Monolake,
Das Ding,
Chrome,
Fatback Band,
Panda Bear,
the Soft Cell,
Stiv Bators,
Gastr Del Sol,
Silicon Teens,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
CMW,
Bobby Womack,
Letta Mbulu,
Whodini,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Walker Brothers,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Rites of Spring,
New Age Steppers,
Lou Reed,
Donny Hathaway,
Roger Hodgson,
Wally Richardson,
Unrelated Segments,
Black Bananas,
Eric Copeland,
MDC,
Black Moon,
The Velvet Underground,
Drexciya,
Simply Red,
The Victims,
Jeff Mills,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Loose Ends,
Cybotron,
Matthew Halsall,
Monks,
The Trojans,
Vainqueur,
Marine Girls,
Hoover,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds.
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.