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 Nigeria and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise 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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 rhodes 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 Public Image Ltd. to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Second Layer. All the underground hits.
All Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scion record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 theremin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soulsonic Force record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Soft Cell,
The Zeros,
Tears for Fears,
Technova,
Charles Mingus,
Slave,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Ponytail,
Laurel Aitken,
Sällskapet,
Saccharine Trust,
ABC,
Freddie Wadling,
Livin' Joy,
DJ Sneak,
Joe Finger,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Happenings,
Donny Hathaway,
Soulsonic Force,
Soul II Soul,
Moebius,
Accadde A,
Sun City Girls,
Thompson Twins,
Jeru the Damaja,
Make Up,
Throbbing Gristle,
Albert Ayler,
China Crisis,
Talk Talk,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
June of 44,
Agent Orange,
Arab on Radar,
The Busters,
Yusef Lateef,
Juan Atkins,
Dual Sessions,
Sister Nancy,
Hasil Adkins,
Todd Terry,
Zapp,
Half Japanese,
Organ,
Ten City,
Gang of Four,
Jerry's Kids,
Magazine,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Supertramp,
the Swans,
The Stooges,
Bill Wells,
The Dave Clark Five,
Moss Icon,
Kerrie Biddell,
Sam Rivers,
Delon & Dalcan,
Inner City,
Rotary Connection,
Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes.
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.