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 Germany and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise 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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 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 Rhythm & Sound to the dance kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Goldenarms. All the underground hits.
All Basic Channel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ultra Naté record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mo-Dettes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Dave Clark Five,
Todd Terry,
The Wake,
The Remains,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Loose Ends,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Grass Roots,
Grandmaster Flash,
Panda Bear,
Desert Stars,
Fear,
New Order,
Crash Course in Science,
Eurythmics,
Eve St. Jones,
Maleditus Sound,
The Velvet Underground,
Shoche,
The Standells,
Judy Mowatt,
a-ha,
Joyce Sims,
Main Source,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Jesper Dahlback,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Pharoah Sanders,
Kool Moe Dee,
Basic Channel,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Mojo Men,
Absolute Body Control,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Young Rascals,
Blancmange,
The Beau Brummels,
Camberwell Now,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Bad Manners,
Janne Schatter,
Rapeman,
Simply Red,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Sex Pistols,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Maurizio,
Chris Corsano,
Circle Jerks,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Seeds,
Scrapy,
The Evens,
Mo-Dettes,
Bill Wells,
Deakin,
The Cure,
Swans, Swans, Swans, Swans.
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.