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 Burundi and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Kerri Chandler to the grime kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Young Marble Giants. All the underground hits.
All Ash Ra Tempel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Q65 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Robert Görl record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Human League,
Rhythm & Sound,
Organ,
John Holt,
Nation of Ulysses,
Jacob Miller,
The Toasters,
Lindisfarne,
PIL,
Dead Boys,
Second Layer,
Nick Fraelich,
Ultra Naté,
The Techniques,
Juan Atkins,
The Motions,
Swans,
Eve St. Jones,
Aswad,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Stockholm Monsters,
Marc Almond,
LL Cool J,
Rotary Connection,
Amazonics,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Moss Icon,
Brick,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Kerrie Biddell,
Nas,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Tears for Fears,
Darondo,
Gichy Dan,
Charles Mingus,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Johnny Osbourne,
the Soft Cell,
Camberwell Now,
Ronnie Foster,
Sight & Sound,
Bobby Byrd,
L. Decosne,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Janne Schatter,
Adolescents,
Marine Girls,
Brothers Johnson,
Minny Pops,
the Sonics,
Dual Sessions,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Bush Tetras,
Ultimate Spinach,
Nico,
Q and Not U, Q and Not U, Q and Not U, Q and Not U.
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.