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 Libya and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise 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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Scott Walker + Sunn O))) to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Barclay James Harvest. All the underground hits.
All Harpers Bizarre tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pagans 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Monochrome Set record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Yellowson,
Henry Cow,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
D'Angelo,
Tommy Roe,
The Detroit Cobras,
Sällskapet,
Lakeside,
Siglo XX,
Sandy B,
The Durutti Column,
Scrapy,
The Kinks,
Byron Stingily,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Toni Rubio,
Fatback Band,
Joy Division,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Yaz,
Soul Sonic Force,
Barrington Levy,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Ronnie Foster,
Vainqueur,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Sparks,
Banda Bassotti,
MC5,
Symarip,
Soft Machine,
Throbbing Gristle,
Derrick Morgan,
Marc Almond,
Skaos,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Trumans Water,
Essential Logic,
Schoolly D,
JFA,
Brass Construction,
X-101,
Dennis Brown,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Gang Starr,
The Tremeloes,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Gastr Del Sol,
Funkadelic,
Angry Samoans,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
David Bowie,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Adolescents,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Traffic Nightmare,
a-ha,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Electric Prunes,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.