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 Iraq and from Woodstock.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 The Zeros 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 Dennis Brown. All the underground hits.
All Metal Thangz tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gastr Del Sol 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Janne Schatter record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cabaret Voltaire,
Grandmaster Flash,
Brick,
Sonic Youth,
Rites of Spring,
Jeff Mills,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Ronan,
Severed Heads,
Pole,
The Real Kids,
Nils Olav,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Mo-Dettes,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Andrew Hill,
CMW,
The Misunderstood,
Basic Channel,
Das Ding,
Black Pus,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Mad Mike,
Alison Limerick,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Golliwogs,
Sällskapet,
Public Enemy,
The Residents,
Henry Cow,
The Vogues,
Radiohead,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
David Bowie,
Stereo Dub,
Wally Richardson,
Thompson Twins,
Junior Murvin,
Judy Mowatt,
Japan,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Victims,
The Raincoats,
F. McDonald,
Con Funk Shun,
Technova,
Gichy Dan,
Flamin' Groovies,
Thee Headcoats,
Hot Snakes,
ABC,
The Saints,
Fluxion,
the Normal,
Rakim,
The Doors,
D'Angelo,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Erasure,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five.
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.