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 Netherlands and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 H. Thieme to the rock kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Crooked Eye. All the underground hits.
All EPMD tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Warren Ellis record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 a linndrum and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter & Gordon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lebanon Hanover,
The Saints,
ABBA,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Talk Talk,
Mo-Dettes,
Brothers Johnson,
Erasure,
Bill Near,
Darondo,
Gerry Rafferty,
Joyce Sims,
Porter Ricks,
Marc Almond,
Adolescents,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Doobie Brothers,
Marshall Jefferson,
Freddie Wadling,
James White and The Blacks,
Toni Rubio,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Searchers,
Charles Mingus,
Moss Icon,
Harry Pussy,
Skaos,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Wolf Eyes,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Nick Fraelich,
Warsaw,
Fugazi,
China Crisis,
Sandy B,
Drexciya,
Oblivians,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Altered Images,
8 Eyed Spy,
Al Stewart,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Silicon Teens,
Mantronix,
Zapp,
Tears for Fears,
Pere Ubu,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Evens,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Donny Hathaway,
Johnny Clarke,
The Blues Magoos,
Dave Gahan,
Reuben Wilson,
Urselle,
48th St. Collective,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Oneida, Oneida, Oneida, Oneida.
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.