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 China and from Bologna.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Average White Band to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 The Index. All the underground hits.
All X-102 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tears for Fears record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 theremin and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Mojo Men record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
FM Einheit,
Aural Exciters,
Jeff Lynne,
The Raincoats,
Chris & Cosey,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Nico,
Kaleidoscope,
Roger Hodgson,
Leonard Cohen,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Jawbox,
Ice-T,
Suburban Knight,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Associates,
Organ,
Lou Reed,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Silicon Teens,
The Moody Blues,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Kinks,
Soul Sonic Force,
Godley & Creme,
Duran Duran,
Albert Ayler,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Infiniti,
Hoover,
Thompson Twins,
New Order,
Wasted Youth,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Pretty Things,
Gang Gang Dance,
Blancmange,
Maleditus Sound,
Ituana,
Grauzone,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Joe Finger,
Accadde A,
Echospace,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Audionom,
La Düsseldorf,
Rosa Yemen,
Robert Hood,
Curtis Mayfield,
Nick Fraelich,
Animal Collective,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Bad Manners,
Marine Girls,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Zero Boys,
Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy's Rubber Band.
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.