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 Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Moebius to the grunge kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Chrome. All the underground hits.
All Pet Shop Boys tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sound Behaviour 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 theremin and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soulsonic Force record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scion,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Joe Finger,
Sixth Finger,
Motorama,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Fugs,
Blake Baxter,
Idris Muhammad,
Eddi Front,
Rapeman,
Traffic Nightmare,
Black Bananas,
The Dead C,
8 Eyed Spy,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Barclay James Harvest,
Chris & Cosey,
the Soft Cell,
Lakeside,
Country Teasers,
Scientists,
The Golliwogs,
Soulsonic Force,
Angry Samoans,
Peter & Gordon,
Technova,
DJ Style,
OOIOO,
Quando Quango,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Skriet,
Lower 48,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Dave Clark Five,
Dark Day,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Altered Images,
Boredoms,
Bauhaus,
Joey Negro,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
David Bowie,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Spoonie Gee,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Sonic Youth,
The Seeds,
Clear Light,
Ultra Naté,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Real Kids,
Chrome,
Accadde A,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Josef K,
Alton Ellis,
Sister Nancy,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Quadrant,
Joy Division,
Al Stewart,
Bill Near, Bill Near, Bill Near, Bill Near.
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.