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 Tuvalu and from Calgary.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Happenings to the rap kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Kool Moe Dee. All the underground hits.
All Gastr Del Sol tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sexual Harrassment record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Q65 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sunsets and Hearts,
Livin' Joy,
Icehouse,
Tubeway Army,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Soft Machine,
Index,
Magma,
Saccharine Trust,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Peter & Gordon,
OOIOO,
The Fire Engines,
Shoche,
Connie Case,
Basic Channel,
Bizarre Inc.,
Barbara Tucker,
Whodini,
The Slits,
Slave,
John Lydon,
The Smoke,
Henry Cow,
Sun Ra,
Pylon,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Pharoah Sanders,
Rod Modell,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Rites of Spring,
Hoover,
June Days,
Easy Going,
Flash Fearless,
Darondo,
Don Cherry,
Eli Mardock,
Radiopuhelimet,
KRS-One,
Joensuu 1685,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Funky Four + One,
Pulsallama,
The Blackbyrds,
Dead Boys,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
the Association,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Aloha Tigers,
Johnny Osbourne,
Robert Görl,
Urselle,
Stereo Dub,
Television Personalities,
Wings,
Cheater Slicks,
Groovy Waters,
The Buckinghams,
The Five Americans, The Five Americans, The Five Americans, The Five Americans.
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.