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 Mali and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 New Order to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 The Vogues. All the underground hits.
All Talk Talk tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Qualms record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Heavy D & The Boyz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Flipper,
Ludus,
Joensuu 1685,
Girls At Our Best!,
Country Teasers,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Jesper Dahlback,
Drexciya,
Eurythmics,
Scrapy,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Mojo Men,
Yellowson,
Roxy Music,
Subhumans,
Livin' Joy,
Henry Cow,
Heaven 17,
Television Personalities,
Kerri Chandler,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Bauhaus,
Todd Terry,
Pagans,
The Birthday Party,
The Cowsills,
Mad Mike,
Gabor Szabo,
The Sisters of Mercy,
John Holt,
Matthew Halsall,
The Dirtbombs,
Cameo,
Bluetip,
The Velvet Underground,
AZ,
Aural Exciters,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Crispy Ambulance,
Scion,
Roxette,
Theoretical Girls,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Lou Christie,
Ultra Naté,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Rosa Yemen,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Sarah Menescal,
Lalann,
Josef K,
One Last Wish,
The Mummies,
The Cure,
The American Breed,
Magma,
Marine Girls,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Boogie Down Productions,
Public Image Ltd.,
Severed Heads,
Eddi Front, Eddi Front, Eddi Front, Eddi Front.
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.