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 Lithuania and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Calgary.
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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Technova 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 The Trojans. All the underground hits.
All Gil Scott Heron tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Supertramp record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dave Gahan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Robert Görl,
Kaleidoscope,
Kas Product,
Adolescents,
Nick Fraelich,
The United States of America,
the Association,
The Music Machine,
Bobby Sherman,
Henry Cow,
Tears for Fears,
Negative Approach,
Groovy Waters,
Sound Behaviour,
Cameo,
The Seeds,
The Knickerbockers,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Youth Brigade,
Make Up,
Radiopuhelimet,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Monks,
Brand Nubian,
Lindisfarne,
Yellowson,
Eric Dolphy,
Maurizio,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Rhythm & Sound,
Soft Cell,
Easy Going,
David Axelrod,
The Tremeloes,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Mission of Burma,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Boredoms,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Black Pus,
Yazoo,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Soulsonic Force,
Reagan Youth,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Count Five,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Ohio Players,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Star Department,
T.S.O.L.,
Schoolly D,
Ronnie Foster,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Cluster,
CMW,
The Slackers,
Siglo XX,
Magma, Magma, Magma, Magma.
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.