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 St Lucia and from Lyon.
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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 linndrum 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 Rakim to the rap 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 Josef K. All the underground hits.
All Rosa Yemen tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kings Of Tomorrow record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 snare and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roger Hodgson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Red Krayola,
Whodini,
Grandmaster Flash,
Y Pants,
F. McDonald,
Gang of Four,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Grass Roots,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Television,
Eurythmics,
Soul Sonic Force,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Skarface,
Black Moon,
Warsaw,
The Index,
Easy Going,
The Wake,
Todd Rundgren,
The Knickerbockers,
Gregory Isaacs,
Neu!,
Pantytec,
Can,
Supertramp,
The Neon Judgement,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Warren Ellis,
Jesper Dahlback,
The United States of America,
CMW,
Lakeside,
the Normal,
Television Personalities,
Harmonia,
The Tremeloes,
The Saints,
Lalann,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Adolescents,
The Leaves,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Sight & Sound,
Blancmange,
Ornette Coleman,
Eli Mardock,
Danielle Patucci,
Blossom Toes,
Blake Baxter,
The Moody Blues,
Roxette,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Wally Richardson,
Liliput,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Negative Approach,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Fear,
T.S.O.L.,
In Retrospect,
The Buckinghams, The Buckinghams, The Buckinghams, The Buckinghams.
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.