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 Denmark and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Audionom 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 The Cosmic Jokers. All the underground hits.
All Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every David McCallum record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Andrew Hill record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Gap Band,
EPMD,
Boz Scaggs,
Dual Sessions,
Andrew Hill,
The Techniques,
The Count Five,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Eden Ahbez,
Severed Heads,
kango's stein massive,
The Residents,
Thompson Twins,
Camouflage,
Patti Smith,
Pylon,
World's Most,
The Standells,
Brothers Johnson,
Slave,
The Birthday Party,
FM Einheit,
Audionom,
Sarah Menescal,
Faraquet,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Glenn Branca,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Icehouse,
Pharoah Sanders,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Young Marble Giants,
Ice-T,
Michelle Simonal,
John Foxx,
The Invisible,
Yellowson,
Pantytec,
Bizarre Inc.,
Blossom Toes,
The Pop Group,
Ituana,
Kevin Saunderson,
Amazonics,
June Days,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Dirtbombs,
Public Enemy,
Fat Boys,
Dawn Penn,
Chris & Cosey,
One Last Wish,
X-102,
Radio Birdman,
Fatback Band,
Depeche Mode, Depeche Mode, Depeche Mode, Depeche Mode.
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.