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 Slovakia and from Jakarta.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Ituana to the grunge 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 Henry Cow. All the underground hits.
All Sound Behaviour tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Essential Logic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Todd Rundgren record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Walker Brothers,
Joey Negro,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Slits,
Brand Nubian,
Dawn Penn,
David Bowie,
The Birthday Party,
The J.B.'s,
Sonny Sharrock,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Aloha Tigers,
Little Man,
Parry Music,
Deadbeat,
Jacques Brel,
Boredoms,
David Axelrod,
Fear,
The Mummies,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Black Flag,
Blancmange,
H. Thieme,
Underground Resistance,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Kinks,
Sound Behaviour,
Delon & Dalcan,
Icehouse,
Soft Cell,
Mr. Review,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Lou Christie,
Agitation Free,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Fluxion,
Jandek,
Nils Olav,
Leonard Cohen,
Grauzone,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Velvet Underground,
Howard Jones,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
R.M.O.,
Deakin,
Crooked Eye,
Boogie Down Productions,
Mission of Burma,
The Searchers,
The Pop Group,
DJ Sneak,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
John Lydon,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Charles Mingus,
The Leaves,
Morten Harket, Morten Harket, Morten Harket, Morten Harket.
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.