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 Andorra and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Cairo.
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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the theremin 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 Flash Fearless to the punk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. All the underground hits.
All Ossler tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Move record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Robert Görl record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Derrick May,
Iggy Pop,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Average White Band,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Fatback Band,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Gun Club,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Technova,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Music Machine,
Trumans Water,
Spandau Ballet,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Litter,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Blake Baxter,
Urselle,
Jesper Dahlback,
Jeff Mills,
Mars,
The Young Rascals,
Groovy Waters,
London Community Gospel Choir,
LL Cool J,
Piero Umiliani,
Tom Boy,
10cc,
Kool Moe Dee,
Wings,
The United States of America,
The Birthday Party,
The Red Krayola,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Mo-Dettes,
Ultravox,
Stereo Dub,
Quando Quango,
Main Source,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
PIL,
Rakim,
Sight & Sound,
Mad Mike,
Ossler,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Anthony Braxton,
The Dirtbombs,
Smog,
Sarah Menescal,
Royal Trux,
Erasure,
Harry Pussy,
Thompson Twins,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
David Axelrod,
World's Most,
Flash Fearless,
Chris Corsano, Chris Corsano, Chris Corsano, Chris Corsano.
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.