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 Albania and from Shanghai.
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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 organ 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 The Searchers to the jazz 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 Mary Jane Girls. All the underground hits.
All Alison Limerick tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scott Walker record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nico record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Matthew Bourne,
K-Klass,
Hasil Adkins,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Judy Mowatt,
JFA,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Fugs,
The Techniques,
Glambeats Corp.,
Zero Boys,
Girls At Our Best!,
Section 25,
Wire,
The Real Kids,
The Names,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
PIL,
Television,
Max Romeo,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Sandy B,
Qualms,
Adolescents,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Litter,
The Gap Band,
Minny Pops,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Fall,
The Smoke,
Dennis Brown,
Swell Maps,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Dual Sessions,
Peter & Gordon,
Patti Smith,
Eric Copeland,
Procol Harum,
Moebius,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Gichy Dan,
Lucky Dragons,
Minnie Riperton,
The Toasters,
Oblivians,
Gang Gang Dance,
Quando Quango,
Pharoah Sanders,
Angry Samoans,
Nick Fraelich,
Pierre Henry,
The Pretty Things,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Pole,
The Skatalites,
Swans,
Al Stewart,
Black Sheep,
Young Marble Giants,
Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin.
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.