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 Botswana and from Johannesburg.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the mellotron 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 The Peanut Butter Conspiracy to the rap kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Raincoats. All the underground hits.
All The Star Department tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Skaos record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Robert Görl,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Neu!,
Skriet,
The Five Americans,
The Stooges,
Altered Images,
The Angels of Light,
Sight & Sound,
Intrusion,
Mark Hollis,
Brick,
Derrick May,
Matthew Halsall,
Rhythm & Sound,
Johnny Clarke,
Iggy Pop,
June Days,
Goldenarms,
Black Sheep,
Youth Brigade,
Tres Demented,
Procol Harum,
Althea and Donna,
Jacques Brel,
Lee Hazlewood,
Fatback Band,
Minny Pops,
X-101,
The Names,
Maleditus Sound,
Sex Pistols,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Crime,
Deadbeat,
Mandrill,
Blake Baxter,
Black Pus,
U.S. Maple,
Oneida,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Con Funk Shun,
The Modern Lovers,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Mo-Dettes,
Judy Mowatt,
Black Bananas,
Mantronix,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Marshall Jefferson,
Fela Kuti,
Godley & Creme,
Stetsasonic,
La Düsseldorf,
Sister Nancy,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Morten Harket,
Saccharine Trust,
The Velvet Underground,
Siglo XX,
Anakelly,
Roger Hodgson, Roger Hodgson, Roger Hodgson, Roger Hodgson.
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.