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 Uganda and from Cairo.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 DNA to the rap kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 One Last Wish. All the underground hits.
All Fatback Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nick Fraelich record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 rhodes and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Matthew Halsall record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Cybotron,
Matthew Bourne,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
the Soft Cell,
Howard Jones,
D'Angelo,
Harmonia,
Jerry's Kids,
Gang Green,
The J.B.'s,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
AZ,
Technova,
Ken Boothe,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Motions,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Jeff Mills,
Surgeon,
Boz Scaggs,
June Days,
Erasure,
Blake Baxter,
Accadde A,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Liliput,
the Human League,
One Last Wish,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Marshall Jefferson,
Skarface,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Zapp,
The Trojans,
Faraquet,
Oblivians,
Saccharine Trust,
Lower 48,
The Durutti Column,
PIL,
These Immortal Souls,
Todd Rundgren,
The Dave Clark Five,
Simply Red,
The Evens,
The Divine Comedy,
Smog,
Fatback Band,
Patti Smith,
John Foxx,
Nils Olav,
Kayak,
Siglo XX,
Graham Central Station,
Soul Sonic Force,
Adolescents,
Depeche Mode,
Bobby Hutcherson,
the Slits, the Slits, the Slits, the Slits.
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.