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 Lesotho and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the organ 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 One Last Wish to the rock kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Simply Red. All the underground hits.
All Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soft Cell record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 rhodes and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fear record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Robert Görl,
Royal Trux,
Dawn Penn,
The Motions,
Section 25,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Malaria!,
Desert Stars,
The Birthday Party,
Kenny Larkin,
Lalo Schifrin,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Fear,
Jacob Miller,
Schoolly D,
Supertramp,
Alison Limerick,
Reagan Youth,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Judy Mowatt,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Scrapy,
Rod Modell,
The Gories,
Lalann,
Fugazi,
Bizarre Inc.,
kango's stein massive,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Easy Going,
Q and Not U,
June of 44,
The Standells,
Saccharine Trust,
DJ Sneak,
Grey Daturas,
Tubeway Army,
Severed Heads,
World's Most,
Pole,
Max Romeo,
Qualms,
The Sound,
Gang of Four,
Harmonia,
Scott Walker,
Marc Almond,
The Music Machine,
Brand Nubian,
David Axelrod,
Eddi Front,
Ultra Naté,
The Toasters,
Rufus Thomas,
The Smoke,
Eli Mardock,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Animal Collective,
Juan Atkins,
Absolute Body Control,
OOIOO,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud.
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.