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 Eritrea and from Seoul.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Zapp to the dance kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Yusef Lateef. All the underground hits.
All X-102 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Michelle Simonal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Delta 5,
Deepchord,
Young Marble Giants,
New Order,
Average White Band,
Yusef Lateef,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Popol Vuh,
Junior Murvin,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Pylon,
The Modern Lovers,
The Mummies,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Fat Boys,
Sam Rivers,
Derrick May,
Rhythm & Sound,
Roy Ayers,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Bronski Beat,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Jesper Dahlback,
Arcadia,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Eurythmics,
The Toasters,
Ken Boothe,
The Black Dice,
ABC,
X-102,
Ohio Players,
Johnny Osbourne,
Cecil Taylor,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Organ,
Amazonics,
The Fire Engines,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Fad Gadget,
MC5,
Bang On A Can,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Leaves,
Swans,
Groovy Waters,
The Fortunes,
Reuben Wilson,
Kurtis Blow,
Technova,
Steve Hackett,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Shadows of Knight,
David McCallum,
Arthur Verocai,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Golliwogs,
Malaria!,
The Music Machine,
Judy Mowatt,
Lalo Schifrin,
Spoonie Gee,
FM Einheit, FM Einheit, FM Einheit, FM Einheit.
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.