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 Malta and from Lyon.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 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 The Royal Family And The Poor to the grunge 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic. All the underground hits.
All The Gun Club tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Panda Bear record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Barclay James Harvest record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Martian,
The Standells,
Ornette Coleman,
Brothers Johnson,
Grauzone,
Country Teasers,
Kenny Larkin,
Skarface,
Drexciya,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Stooges,
The Moleskins,
Outsiders,
David McCallum,
Moss Icon,
Sonny Sharrock,
Johnny Osbourne,
Nico,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Fortunes,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Howard Jones,
Moby Grape,
Morten Harket,
Surgeon,
The Blues Magoos,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Minny Pops,
Barry Ungar,
Japan,
Brand Nubian,
Audionom,
Kaleidoscope,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Beau Brummels,
Rekid,
Whodini,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Cybotron,
Warsaw,
Dennis Brown,
Jandek,
Motorama,
Wally Richardson,
Sound Behaviour,
Minnie Riperton,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Joensuu 1685,
Cal Tjader,
Alphaville,
Ohio Players,
The Human League,
UT,
Todd Terry,
Sonic Youth,
the Association,
Dawn Penn,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap.
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.