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 Ethiopia and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Lyres to the dance kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Wasted Youth. All the underground hits.
All Suburban Knight tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Aloha Tigers 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a guitar 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 synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Robert Wyatt,
kango's stein massive,
the Human League,
Scion,
E-Dancer,
Marvin Gaye,
Alice Coltrane,
Althea and Donna,
Quando Quango,
Negative Approach,
Sixth Finger,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Slits,
Maleditus Sound,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Guru Guru,
Stiv Bators,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Roger Hodgson,
Bill Near,
Eric Dolphy,
The Monochrome Set,
Prince Buster,
Fluxion,
Jerry's Kids,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Real Kids,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Leaves,
New York Dolls,
Sandy B,
Quantec,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Sound Behaviour,
Jeff Lynne,
Mr. Review,
Tomorrow,
Metal Thangz,
The Grass Roots,
Sister Nancy,
Matthew Halsall,
Yaz,
Rod Modell,
Half Japanese,
Audionom,
Ultra Naté,
the Swans,
Q65,
Liliput,
Urselle,
Procol Harum,
Pantytec,
The Offenders,
The Velvet Underground,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Derrick May,
Bill Wells,
Interpol,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Country Teasers,
Howard Jones,
The Human League,
Minnie Riperton, Minnie Riperton, Minnie Riperton, Minnie Riperton.
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.