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 Uganda and from Lyon.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 David Axelrod to the rap kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Bad Manners. All the underground hits.
All Youth Brigade tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Association record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dave Gahan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Anakelly,
Pierre Henry,
Porter Ricks,
Crime,
Toni Rubio,
Barbara Tucker,
Ultravox,
Aloha Tigers,
ABBA,
Television Personalities,
Von Mondo,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Rufus Thomas,
X-101,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Fortunes,
Davy DMX,
Gil Scott Heron,
New York Dolls,
The Techniques,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Moss Icon,
Delon & Dalcan,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Names,
Godley & Creme,
Accadde A,
Pantytec,
Silicon Teens,
the Fania All-Stars,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Robert Görl,
The Smoke,
Arthur Verocai,
Sun Ra,
Babytalk,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
La Düsseldorf,
LL Cool J,
Eli Mardock,
Todd Rundgren,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Monks,
Soulsonic Force,
Average White Band,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Desert Stars,
Cameo,
The Durutti Column,
Mantronix,
Sun City Girls,
Soft Cell,
Pere Ubu,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Lee Hazlewood,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Panda Bear,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Organ,
Cluster,
Matthew Bourne,
Sister Nancy, Sister Nancy, Sister Nancy, Sister Nancy.
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.