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 Bulgaria and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Delon & Dalcan to the rock kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Al Stewart. All the underground hits.
All Bill Near tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The New Christs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 an oboe and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Standells record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soul II Soul,
Pierre Henry,
Agent Orange,
New Age Steppers,
Y Pants,
The Gories,
Steve Hackett,
Radiohead,
Spoonie Gee,
Radiopuhelimet,
Desert Stars,
Magma,
Andrew Hill,
Roger Hodgson,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Robert Hood,
Joe Finger,
Tom Boy,
Con Funk Shun,
Motorama,
Piero Umiliani,
David McCallum,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Animal Collective,
Roxette,
Buzzcocks,
Grauzone,
The Leaves,
Neu!,
F. McDonald,
Surgeon,
Todd Rundgren,
Frankie Knuckles,
Circle Jerks,
The Grass Roots,
Ossler,
Gong,
John Foxx,
The Offenders,
Qualms,
John Coltrane,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Flamin' Groovies,
Jerry's Kids,
Intrusion,
Joyce Sims,
A Certain Ratio,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Howard Jones,
Rosa Yemen,
48th St. Collective,
Slave,
Warren Ellis,
Charles Mingus,
Davy DMX,
Banda Bassotti,
Michelle Simonal,
The Divine Comedy,
Suicide,
Lou Reed,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Moody Blues, The Moody Blues, The Moody Blues, The Moody Blues.
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.