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 Uruguay and from Milan.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Cluster to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Dawn Penn. All the underground hits.
All The Leaves tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Stooges record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Evens record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bobbi Humphrey,
Godley & Creme,
Ituana,
Vainqueur,
Radio Birdman,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Lee Hazlewood,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Liliput,
Kool Moe Dee,
Jeru the Damaja,
Eurythmics,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Japan,
Bush Tetras,
Archie Shepp,
Adolescents,
Quantec,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Absolute Body Control,
Symarip,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Shoche,
Thompson Twins,
Spoonie Gee,
Motorama,
The Grass Roots,
Lalann,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Fuzztones,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Half Japanese,
Wings,
a-ha,
Malaria!,
Henry Cow,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Talk Talk,
the Normal,
Sandy B,
The Doobie Brothers,
Rekid,
Brand Nubian,
Ken Boothe,
Jerry's Kids,
Derrick May,
Warren Ellis,
In Retrospect,
Black Pus,
Kevin Saunderson,
Television Personalities,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
CMW,
China Crisis,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Pagans,
The Busters,
Monolake,
Dave Gahan, Dave Gahan, Dave Gahan, Dave Gahan.
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.