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 Italy and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Jesper Dahlback to the punk 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 Kool G Rap & DJ Polo. All the underground hits.
All The Slits tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Arab on Radar record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a sitar 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 linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Fatback Band,
Circle Jerks,
Bootsy Collins,
Tommy Roe,
E-Dancer,
Bluetip,
Barbara Tucker,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Ludus,
Crime,
Unrelated Segments,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Smoke,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Modern Lovers,
Todd Rundgren,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Gladiators,
Wasted Youth,
The Searchers,
Man Eating Sloth,
Anthony Braxton,
Pierre Henry,
Quantec,
Moby Grape,
Delta 5,
Joe Finger,
Throbbing Gristle,
Joey Negro,
The Star Department,
Outsiders,
EPMD,
The Blackbyrds,
Audionom,
Babytalk,
Jeff Lynne,
Los Fastidios,
Mandrill,
Lalo Schifrin,
Wire,
Trumans Water,
Stetsasonic,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Dark Day,
Tom Boy,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Marshall Jefferson,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Kinks,
Amazonics,
Boogie Down Productions,
Leonard Cohen,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Harmonia,
Ultravox,
Camouflage,
Pylon,
Bobby Sherman,
Make Up,
Easy Going,
Grey Daturas,
Harry Pussy,
The Mighty Diamonds, The Mighty Diamonds, The Mighty Diamonds, The Mighty Diamonds.
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.