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 Malta and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 David Bowie 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 PIL to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Bluetip. All the underground hits.
All Pylon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Soft Cell 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Depeche Mode record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jeff Lynne,
Zero Boys,
Barbara Tucker,
Yellowson,
Avey Tare,
Archie Shepp,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Urselle,
This Heat,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Blackbyrds,
Brass Construction,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Kas Product,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
cv313,
Rakim,
The Monochrome Set,
Cal Tjader,
Khruangbin,
The Names,
Idris Muhammad,
Gang Starr,
U.S. Maple,
Pet Shop Boys,
Stetsasonic,
Kenny Larkin,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Drexciya,
Lightning Bolt,
Jesper Dahlback,
Ralphi Rosario,
Marine Girls,
Das Ding,
Rekid,
FM Einheit,
Neil Young,
Michelle Simonal,
Stereo Dub,
The Standells,
Pole,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Busters,
World's Most,
The Grass Roots,
The Real Kids,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Sonics,
Basic Channel,
Eric Dolphy,
Iggy Pop,
Minutemen,
Interpol,
Cluster,
Los Fastidios,
Simply Red,
Soul II Soul,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection.
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.