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 Germany and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Audionom to the dance 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 The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band. All the underground hits.
All Essential Logic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Guru Guru record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Robert Görl record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fear,
Agitation Free,
Malaria!,
Audionom,
Trumans Water,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Hardrive,
Gang Starr,
Echospace,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Fugs,
Glenn Branca,
Colin Newman,
Lucky Dragons,
The Blues Magoos,
Patti Smith,
Deakin,
Public Image Ltd.,
Delon & Dalcan,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Simply Red,
The Five Americans,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Sight & Sound,
China Crisis,
The Mojo Men,
Sandy B,
Davy DMX,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Ten City,
Unrelated Segments,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Hasil Adkins,
Rhythm & Sound,
Toni Rubio,
Anakelly,
Ponytail,
Steve Hackett,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Moody Blues,
Adolescents,
the Swans,
Mo-Dettes,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Rites of Spring,
10cc,
Josef K,
Radiopuhelimet,
Gang Gang Dance,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Max Romeo,
The Zeros,
Tom Boy,
Magma,
Alphaville,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Soul Sonic Force,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Suicide,
Erasure,
The Martian, The Martian, The Martian, The Martian.
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.