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 Ukraine and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 sitar 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 the Soft Cell to the grime 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 The Happenings. All the underground hits.
All Eli Mardock tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hardrive record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
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 Janne Schatter record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
It's A Beautiful Day,
Deadbeat,
Ludus,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Sugar Minott,
Guru Guru,
Excepter,
Wire,
Public Enemy,
Danielle Patucci,
E-Dancer,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Anthony Braxton,
Sonic Youth,
Isaac Hayes,
Minnie Riperton,
Los Fastidios,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Moss Icon,
Peter & Gordon,
Smog,
Eden Ahbez,
The Smiths,
Monks,
Junior Murvin,
The Walker Brothers,
Malaria!,
Judy Mowatt,
Soft Machine,
The Human League,
Ponytail,
Byron Stingily,
Inner City,
Heaven 17,
The Martian,
Brand Nubian,
The Beau Brummels,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Alison Limerick,
Unrelated Segments,
Nik Kershaw,
U.S. Maple,
Lee Hazlewood,
Radiopuhelimet,
Marvin Gaye,
Rosa Yemen,
Cecil Taylor,
One Last Wish,
Rakim,
Sarah Menescal,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Ituana,
The Fire Engines,
The Gap Band,
Gabor Szabo,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Motions,
The Seeds,
Q65,
Prince Buster,
The Blues Magoos,
The Durutti Column, The Durutti Column, The Durutti Column, The Durutti Column.
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.