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 Laos and from Halifax.
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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Lyon.
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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Cabaret Voltaire to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Adolescents. All the underground hits.
All Von Mondo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Parry Music record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 a spring reverb and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alphaville record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Robert Görl,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Dorothy Ashby,
John Coltrane,
Kevin Saunderson,
Roxette,
Franke,
The Sound,
Grandmaster Flash,
Heaven 17,
Amon Düül II,
Erykah Badu,
Fatback Band,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Ronnie Foster,
The Tremeloes,
Boz Scaggs,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Rosa Yemen,
The Music Machine,
Sex Pistols,
Juan Atkins,
One Last Wish,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Fela Kuti,
The Birthday Party,
Bobby Byrd,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Fear,
Albert Ayler,
Thompson Twins,
The Associates,
Y Pants,
The Invisible,
Bobby Womack,
Depeche Mode,
Bill Wells,
Half Japanese,
Blossom Toes,
Kurtis Blow,
Maleditus Sound,
The Litter,
Pulsallama,
Ultra Naté,
Grauzone,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Alice Coltrane,
Grey Daturas,
The Offenders,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Sugar Minott,
a-ha,
Hashim,
Deadbeat,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Brick,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Cybotron,
The Toasters,
Harmonia,
Terrestrial Tones, Terrestrial Tones, Terrestrial Tones, Terrestrial Tones.
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.