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 Namibia and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 linndrum 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 Spandau Ballet to the techno kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 ABC. All the underground hits.
All Franke tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lou Reed & Metallica 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Michelle Simonal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer 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?
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Evens,
Unrelated Segments,
Bizarre Inc.,
Kenny Larkin,
Iggy Pop,
Barry Ungar,
DJ Style,
Brand Nubian,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
the Germs,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Vogues,
China Crisis,
Bill Near,
Ronan,
Quantec,
Darondo,
Sun City Girls,
Echospace,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Altered Images,
The Real Kids,
Spandau Ballet,
Moebius,
Kevin Saunderson,
Sparks,
Rotary Connection,
The Saints,
Von Mondo,
LL Cool J,
Rekid,
Circle Jerks,
The Doors,
Dennis Brown,
Niagra,
Motorama,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Arthur Verocai,
Bauhaus,
Cabaret Voltaire,
the Slits,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Subhumans,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Sexual Harrassment,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Jawbox,
Rosa Yemen,
Reuben Wilson,
Barclay James Harvest,
Basic Channel,
Chris & Cosey,
Erasure,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Delta 5,
Joensuu 1685,
48th St. Collective,
The Names,
Japan,
Mo-Dettes,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282.
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.