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 Mali and from Seoul.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 snare 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 Howard Jones to the rock 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 Technova. All the underground hits.
All Sixth Finger tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Searchers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Blossom Toes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lakeside,
Soulsonic Force,
The Remains,
Delon & Dalcan,
F. McDonald,
K-Klass,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Janne Schatter,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Real Kids,
Flash Fearless,
Unrelated Segments,
The Smiths,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Ralphi Rosario,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Bill Near,
Cybotron,
Q65,
Barry Ungar,
Inner City,
The Stooges,
Byron Stingily,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Marcia Griffiths,
Agitation Free,
Fatback Band,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Animal Collective,
Youth Brigade,
Barbara Tucker,
DJ Style,
The Last Poets,
Qualms,
Alphaville,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Searchers,
Harmonia,
Infiniti,
The Birthday Party,
Judy Mowatt,
Bush Tetras,
Reuben Wilson,
The Flesh Eaters,
Lucky Dragons,
Circle Jerks,
The Victims,
Donny Hathaway,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Joe Finger,
Roxy Music,
Rhythm & Sound,
Charles Mingus,
MDC,
One Last Wish,
Television Personalities,
Gang of Four, Gang of Four, Gang of Four, Gang of Four.
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.