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 Equatorial Guinea and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the sitar 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 X-Ray Spex to the crunk 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 Index. All the underground hits.
All John Lydon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Depeche Mode record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 sitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pierre Henry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kevin Saunderson,
Bronski Beat,
Second Layer,
Pantytec,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Al Stewart,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
K-Klass,
Tomorrow,
Dennis Brown,
Public Enemy,
The Vogues,
a-ha,
Blake Baxter,
Delon & Dalcan,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Junior Murvin,
The Kinks,
Warren Ellis,
Shuggie Otis,
Buzzcocks,
Sexual Harrassment,
cv313,
Anthony Braxton,
Guru Guru,
Country Teasers,
Joensuu 1685,
Gil Scott Heron,
Ultravox,
Barclay James Harvest,
Hardrive,
Kool Moe Dee,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Fat Boys,
These Immortal Souls,
Amazonics,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Mars,
The Monochrome Set,
The Neon Judgement,
Audionom,
Scott Walker,
Peter and Kerry,
Flamin' Groovies,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Anakelly,
Robert Hood,
Magazine,
Suburban Knight,
The American Breed,
Heaven 17,
The Cure,
Black Bananas,
Eurythmics,
Ultimate Spinach,
the Human League,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Ralphi Rosario,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Aloha Tigers,
Visage, Visage, Visage, Visage.
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.