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 Mauritania and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 Sao Paulo and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 arpeggiator 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 Wings to the rock 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 Delta 5. All the underground hits.
All Scott Walker + Sunn O))) tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every New Age Steppers 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
AZ,
the Human League,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Ultimate Spinach,
Derrick May,
The Wake,
Matthew Bourne,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
David Bowie,
Livin' Joy,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
UT,
Malaria!,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Skaos,
The Angels of Light,
Trumans Water,
Vladislav Delay,
Rod Modell,
the Slits,
Dawn Penn,
The Saints,
Gang of Four,
Second Layer,
The Alarm Clocks,
Neu!,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Cybotron,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Arab on Radar,
The Music Machine,
The Smiths,
Barclay James Harvest,
Depeche Mode,
Janne Schatter,
Television Personalities,
Barbara Tucker,
U.S. Maple,
Niagra,
Dual Sessions,
James White and The Blacks,
Yazoo,
Joensuu 1685,
Jawbox,
The Fortunes,
Q and Not U,
The Cowsills,
Bobbi Humphrey,
John Lydon,
Ice-T,
Deepchord,
Simply Red,
Soul II Soul,
Silicon Teens,
Nick Fraelich,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Moleskins,
New York Dolls,
D'Angelo,
June of 44,
Echo & the Bunnymen, Echo & the Bunnymen, Echo & the Bunnymen, Echo & the Bunnymen.
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.