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 Bolivia and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Calgary.
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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 The Men They Couldn't Hang to the disco 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 Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz. All the underground hits.
All Bootsy Collins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Saccharine Trust record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Vaughan Mason & Crew record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sällskapet,
Zapp,
Lee Hazlewood,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Hardrive,
Bob Dylan,
Joe Smooth,
Drexciya,
Moebius,
Danielle Patucci,
The Skatalites,
Avey Tare,
The Move,
LL Cool J,
Amon Düül II,
Bluetip,
Prince Buster,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Blake Baxter,
DJ Sneak,
Basic Channel,
Nico,
Gerry Rafferty,
Minutemen,
Lindisfarne,
the Normal,
Harry Pussy,
Young Marble Giants,
Moby Grape,
Johnny Osbourne,
Soul Sonic Force,
Skaos,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Minnie Riperton,
Ronan,
Mark Hollis,
The Mummies,
Robert Hood,
Stetsasonic,
Loose Ends,
Curtis Mayfield,
Zero Boys,
A Certain Ratio,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Rotary Connection,
June of 44,
World's Most,
One Last Wish,
Silicon Teens,
the Slits,
Public Enemy,
Rekid,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Eden Ahbez,
Isaac Hayes,
the Soft Cell,
Scott Walker,
Livin' Joy,
Mary Jane Girls,
Juan Atkins,
The Happenings,
Be Bop Deluxe, Be Bop Deluxe, Be Bop Deluxe, Be Bop Deluxe.
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.