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 Lesotho and from Glasgow.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 the Spitz.
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 Sight & Sound. All the underground hits.
All Alton Ellis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pet Shop Boys 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Albert Ayler record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ohio Players,
Theoretical Girls,
Amon Düül II,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Pierre Henry,
Electric Prunes,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Minnie Riperton,
Aswad,
Colin Newman,
The Raincoats,
Niagra,
Cameo,
Fatback Band,
Skarface,
Ten City,
Quando Quango,
Youth Brigade,
Scion,
Girls At Our Best!,
Brand Nubian,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Alton Ellis,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Schoolly D,
Los Fastidios,
The Saints,
Rhythm & Sound,
Tres Demented,
Sex Pistols,
The Invisible,
The Slits,
Henry Cow,
Tommy Roe,
the Germs,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Eddi Front,
U.S. Maple,
Black Pus,
Lakeside,
Laurel Aitken,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Patti Smith,
Joe Finger,
The Cramps,
Gong,
Nik Kershaw,
Jacques Brel,
Bronski Beat,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Janne Schatter,
Echospace,
Q65,
Yazoo,
Marine Girls,
Robert Hood,
Alison Limerick,
DJ Sneak,
Duran Duran,
Bobbi Humphrey,
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.