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 Croatia and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Soft Machine to the grime kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Buckinghams. All the underground hits.
All Brick tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Yusef Lateef 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visage record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Laurel Aitken,
Can,
Electric Prunes,
Ultra Naté,
Barclay James Harvest,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Techniques,
Mars,
Todd Rundgren,
Dark Day,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Unrelated Segments,
The Sonics,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Sound Behaviour,
Magazine,
the Slits,
ABBA,
Lightning Bolt,
L. Decosne,
The Zeros,
Bluetip,
Pere Ubu,
Magma,
The Invisible,
The Smiths,
Avey Tare,
Jerry's Kids,
Spoonie Gee,
Sam Rivers,
Pagans,
Susan Cadogan,
Blancmange,
June of 44,
The Mojo Men,
DNA,
Little Man,
Barry Ungar,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Iggy Pop,
The Skatalites,
Janne Schatter,
Danielle Patucci,
Clear Light,
Fear,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Peter & Gordon,
The Alarm Clocks,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Blackbyrds,
Albert Ayler,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Kevin Saunderson,
Inner City,
Sparks,
the Germs,
The Star Department,
Jacques Brel,
Young Marble Giants, Young Marble Giants, Young Marble Giants, Young Marble Giants.
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.