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 Uganda and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise 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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the güiro 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 Second Layer 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 Eden Ahbez. All the underground hits.
All Unrelated Segments tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Knickerbockers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 an arpeggiator and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dave Gahan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Doobie Brothers,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Arab on Radar,
Leonard Cohen,
Colin Newman,
Procol Harum,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Brass Construction,
Circle Jerks,
The Techniques,
Pantaleimon,
The Vogues,
Faust,
Piero Umiliani,
Lou Christie,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Slick Rick,
Jacob Miller,
Lakeside,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Funky Four + One,
EPMD,
Shoche,
Swell Maps,
Swans,
Ronan,
Kayak,
The Golliwogs,
Chris & Cosey,
Erasure,
The Zeros,
Agitation Free,
Yusef Lateef,
Eve St. Jones,
10cc,
Derrick Morgan,
The Neon Judgement,
Spoonie Gee,
The Count Five,
The Toasters,
The Victims,
Scratch Acid,
Zapp,
Smog,
Brand Nubian,
Rotary Connection,
Sonny Sharrock,
Gang Green,
Aural Exciters,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Dual Sessions,
Quadrant,
Delon & Dalcan,
Connie Case,
Scrapy,
The Birthday Party,
Alphaville,
Eric B and Rakim,
Man Parrish,
Cymande,
One Last Wish,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.