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 Israel and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Das Ding to the jazz kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Nas. All the underground hits.
All Lou Christie tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Durutti Column record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 clarinet and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Flipper record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Robert Görl,
Soft Cell,
Tomorrow,
The Skatalites,
MC5,
Mo-Dettes,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Kaleidoscope,
Zapp,
Negative Approach,
The Index,
Unwound,
Yazoo,
Prince Buster,
T.S.O.L.,
Zero Boys,
Silicon Teens,
Todd Terry,
the Human League,
Rhythm & Sound,
Byron Stingily,
T. Rex,
Clear Light,
Gong,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Brick,
Faust,
Ponytail,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
B.T. Express,
Aural Exciters,
Simply Red,
Average White Band,
The Monochrome Set,
The Cowsills,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Roxette,
The Blackbyrds,
Amon Düül II,
The Star Department,
Lou Reed,
The Knickerbockers,
Section 25,
The Saints,
cv313,
Howard Jones,
Maleditus Sound,
Main Source,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Lyres,
The Fall,
Robert Hood,
Stockholm Monsters,
Graham Central Station,
The Black Dice,
Patti Smith,
The Monks,
The Young Rascals,
Underground Resistance,
Tubeway Army, Tubeway Army, Tubeway Army, Tubeway Army.
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.