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 Qatar and from Columbus.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 theremin 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 Hashim to the dance kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Pantaleimon. All the underground hits.
All Skriet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rosa Yemen 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a In Retrospect record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Crispian St. Peters,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Johnny Osbourne,
The J.B.'s,
Whodini,
The Neon Judgement,
The Happenings,
The Real Kids,
PIL,
Soul Sonic Force,
Sonic Youth,
the Soft Cell,
Rod Modell,
Stockholm Monsters,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Grass Roots,
Piero Umiliani,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Sexual Harrassment,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sällskapet,
Masters at Work,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Absolute Body Control,
The Evens,
James White and The Blacks,
Sparks,
Mr. Review,
ABBA,
Siglo XX,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Neu!,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Black Moon,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Chris Corsano,
Jesper Dahlback,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Young Rascals,
Dennis Brown,
Blossom Toes,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
La Düsseldorf,
Blake Baxter,
The Remains,
Brick,
Jeff Lynne,
Gang Green,
Matthew Bourne,
The Knickerbockers,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Swell Maps,
Terrestrial Tones,
Bill Near,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Fuzztones,
Newcleus,
The Gladiators,
Wasted Youth,
Joyce Sims,
Yazoo,
The Names,
Surgeon, Surgeon, Surgeon, Surgeon.
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.