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 Benin and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Talk Talk to the rap kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Nils Olav. All the underground hits.
All Q65 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Chocolate Watch Band 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Matthew Bourne record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tomorrow,
Ossler,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Leaves,
Frankie Knuckles,
Mark Hollis,
Gang of Four,
The Barracudas,
Agitation Free,
X-101,
Alphaville,
Derrick Morgan,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Nation of Ulysses,
Crash Course in Science,
Make Up,
Flash Fearless,
Tears for Fears,
Moebius,
Khruangbin,
Nick Fraelich,
LL Cool J,
Pantytec,
Public Enemy,
The Mummies,
Country Teasers,
Peter & Gordon,
Quadrant,
Drexciya,
Hoover,
Heaven 17,
Godley & Creme,
Stereo Dub,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Stiv Bators,
Pierre Henry,
The Offenders,
Magazine,
Judy Mowatt,
Blancmange,
Public Image Ltd.,
Radio Birdman,
Girls At Our Best!,
Matthew Halsall,
Freddie Wadling,
Barrington Levy,
Ultimate Spinach,
Shoche,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Mandrill,
Colin Newman,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Rosa Yemen,
The Remains,
Fear,
Qualms,
Whodini,
Second Layer,
Soft Machine,
Y Pants,
Jacques Brel,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band.
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.