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 Indonesia and from Spokane.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 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 The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Be Bop Deluxe. All the underground hits.
All Jesper Dahlback tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Section 25 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jimmy McGriff record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Bootsy Collins,
Stetsasonic,
The Knickerbockers,
Quantec,
Tropical Tobacco,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Patti Smith,
E-Dancer,
Goldenarms,
Mandrill,
Blossom Toes,
Colin Newman,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Real Kids,
Marvin Gaye,
Harpers Bizarre,
Yellowson,
Grauzone,
Public Image Ltd.,
New Order,
Marshall Jefferson,
Nico,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Matthew Halsall,
Kaleidoscope,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Jawbox,
The Fuzztones,
DNA,
Stockholm Monsters,
Delta 5,
The Mummies,
Flamin' Groovies,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Standells,
Roy Ayers,
Pantytec,
The Moody Blues,
Morten Harket,
Monks,
Avey Tare,
The American Breed,
The Human League,
Idris Muhammad,
Basic Channel,
Fat Boys,
The Pretty Things,
Robert Hood,
Niagra,
Joy Division,
Lakeside,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Dennis Brown,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Circle Jerks,
Kas Product,
Tears for Fears,
Shuggie Otis,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Flipper, Flipper, Flipper, Flipper.
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.