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 United States and from Bremen.
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 1962 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Normal to the dance 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 Magma. All the underground hits.
All The Grass Roots tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Beau Brummels 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a De La Soul & Jungle Brothers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sonic Youth,
The Move,
Metal Thangz,
Gang of Four,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Mark Hollis,
Lebanon Hanover,
Half Japanese,
Blossom Toes,
Piero Umiliani,
Neil Young,
Excepter,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Subhumans,
Joe Smooth,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
DJ Style,
Bauhaus,
Todd Terry,
Al Stewart,
Fear,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Misunderstood,
Man Parrish,
Mission of Burma,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Dawn Penn,
OOIOO,
Terry Callier,
The Gladiators,
Soulsonic Force,
Kenny Larkin,
Bill Near,
Bobby Byrd,
Janne Schatter,
Warsaw,
Icehouse,
Swans,
Underground Resistance,
Minny Pops,
Mantronix,
Talk Talk,
Stereo Dub,
Aswad,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Darondo,
Alison Limerick,
The Cure,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
David Axelrod,
Silicon Teens,
Fluxion,
The Angels of Light,
DNA,
Ice-T,
The Offenders,
Sex Pistols,
Connie Case,
Rod Modell,
Bobby Womack,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Smiths,
In Retrospect,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra.
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.