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 Italy and from Accra.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Stockholm.
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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 John Foxx to the rock kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Deepchord. All the underground hits.
All Blancmange tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Knickerbockers 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a X-101 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Skriet,
Rotary Connection,
Sonic Youth,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Scientists,
Rites of Spring,
The Doors,
Minnie Riperton,
Reuben Wilson,
Lalo Schifrin,
Section 25,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Loose Ends,
Index,
Pylon,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Saccharine Trust,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Tommy Roe,
Panda Bear,
Pantytec,
Lyres,
Boz Scaggs,
Fluxion,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Malaria!,
Rakim,
Thompson Twins,
Dawn Penn,
JFA,
Das Ding,
Essential Logic,
Smog,
Morten Harket,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Velvet Underground,
Dead Boys,
Slick Rick,
The Dirtbombs,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Detroit Cobras,
Ralphi Rosario,
Hasil Adkins,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Angels of Light,
Jeff Lynne,
Pere Ubu,
Roxette,
Gregory Isaacs,
Sexual Harrassment,
Sam Rivers,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Slits,
Pole,
Lou Reed,
Goldenarms,
Joe Finger,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Happenings, The Happenings, The Happenings, The Happenings.
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.