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 Venezuela and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Roy Ayers Ubiquity to the electroclash 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 Dave Gahan. All the underground hits.
All Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pere Ubu record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Neu! record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
a-ha,
Spandau Ballet,
Black Moon,
Anthony Braxton,
Frankie Knuckles,
Curtis Mayfield,
Oneida,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Gang of Four,
The Alarm Clocks,
Derrick Morgan,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Buckinghams,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
MDC,
Faraquet,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Dennis Brown,
Crispy Ambulance,
Todd Rundgren,
Deepchord,
James White and The Blacks,
The Walker Brothers,
Tom Boy,
The Selecter,
Heaven 17,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Seeds,
Negative Approach,
The Moleskins,
Leonard Cohen,
Hashim,
Barbara Tucker,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Litter,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Joe Smooth,
Thompson Twins,
The Angels of Light,
Smog,
kango's stein massive,
Gang Green,
Roxette,
Robert Görl,
Prince Buster,
The Names,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Rekid,
Radio Birdman,
E-Dancer,
Jawbox,
The Smiths,
Wings,
Joey Negro,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Sam Rivers,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Junior Murvin,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Bobby Sherman,
Hasil Adkins,
Ronnie Foster,
Dead Boys,
Liaisons Dangereuses, Liaisons Dangereuses, Liaisons Dangereuses, Liaisons Dangereuses.
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.