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 Gambia and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the snare 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 Nirvana 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 Evens. All the underground hits.
All Wire tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Negative Approach record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Robert Görl record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pussy Galore,
Ronnie Foster,
Black Sheep,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Grey Daturas,
Essential Logic,
The Pretty Things,
Audionom,
CMW,
Section 25,
Pagans,
Dave Gahan,
Half Japanese,
Peter & Gordon,
Ultravox,
Au Pairs,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Jerry Gold Smith,
China Crisis,
Dead Boys,
Yusef Lateef,
Brick,
June Days,
Soul II Soul,
Dual Sessions,
Cameo,
The Dave Clark Five,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Zeros,
Kayak,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Neon Judgement,
the Germs,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Monks,
48th St. Collective,
Public Image Ltd.,
Kerri Chandler,
Interpol,
Main Source,
Qualms,
Television,
New Age Steppers,
Flash Fearless,
Moby Grape,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
L. Decosne,
Junior Murvin,
Colin Newman,
Organ,
The Stooges,
K-Klass,
Silicon Teens,
Groovy Waters,
Lungfish,
Mo-Dettes,
Blossom Toes,
Loose Ends,
the Normal,
The Doors,
Cybotron,
Patti Smith,
The Mummies, The Mummies, The Mummies, The Mummies.
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.