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 Somalia and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Swell Maps to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Grey Daturas. All the underground hits.
All Deadbeat tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Selector Dub Narcotic 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 güiro and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a La Düsseldorf record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Divine Comedy,
Sight & Sound,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Shadows of Knight,
Dual Sessions,
X-102,
The Grass Roots,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Public Enemy,
the Fania All-Stars,
Lungfish,
Toni Rubio,
The Modern Lovers,
Ponytail,
Susan Cadogan,
AZ,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Gang of Four,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Sixth Finger,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Ronnie Foster,
Soft Cell,
Lebanon Hanover,
Yellowson,
Sister Nancy,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Doors,
Los Fastidios,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Mission of Burma,
Matthew Halsall,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Moody Blues,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Five Americans,
David McCallum,
Second Layer,
Roy Ayers,
Hardrive,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Agent Orange,
Outsiders,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Crooked Eye,
H. Thieme,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Groovy Waters,
The Count Five,
Symarip,
Minor Threat,
Pulsallama,
The Happenings,
Unrelated Segments,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Names,
Fear,
Barrington Levy,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Siouxsie and the Banshees, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Siouxsie and the Banshees.
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.