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 Cameroon and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Ohio Players to the electroclash 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 Echospace. All the underground hits.
All The Moleskins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sound Behaviour record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Negative Approach,
Shuggie Otis,
Aloha Tigers,
Fat Boys,
Arcadia,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Bobby Sherman,
UT,
Deadbeat,
Altered Images,
The Move,
The Dirtbombs,
The Litter,
Excepter,
Slick Rick,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Erykah Badu,
David Axelrod,
The Names,
ABBA,
Skriet,
John Foxx,
Das Ding,
The Doobie Brothers,
Thompson Twins,
John Holt,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Fluxion,
Warsaw,
Alison Limerick,
Gerry Rafferty,
Essential Logic,
Godley & Creme,
Main Source,
Circle Jerks,
Barrington Levy,
Joyce Sims,
Robert Görl,
Hoover,
Franke,
Crash Course in Science,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Tim Buckley,
Eddi Front,
Popol Vuh,
a-ha,
Anakelly,
Y Pants,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Swell Maps,
Ken Boothe,
Bang On A Can,
Bill Near,
Dave Gahan,
Roxy Music,
Jerry's Kids,
Nils Olav,
Jawbox,
Soft Cell,
Agent Orange, Agent Orange, Agent Orange, Agent Orange.
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.