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 Dominica and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Accadde A 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 The Names. All the underground hits.
All Traffic Nightmare tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rosa Yemen record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Zero Boys record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Connie Case,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Supertramp,
New Age Steppers,
Gabor Szabo,
Pantytec,
One Last Wish,
The Music Machine,
Lou Reed,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Babytalk,
Public Enemy,
Mo-Dettes,
This Heat,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Technova,
Y Pants,
The Smoke,
Sällskapet,
Simply Red,
Bluetip,
Royal Trux,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Slick Rick,
Scrapy,
Gang of Four,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Danielle Patucci,
Outsiders,
Von Mondo,
Malaria!,
Pharoah Sanders,
Vainqueur,
Neil Young,
Mantronix,
The Remains,
Bobby Womack,
Lou Christie,
Grauzone,
Darondo,
Alphaville,
Sugar Minott,
Marine Girls,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Cheater Slicks,
Lightning Bolt,
Mission of Burma,
Delta 5,
Slave,
Wally Richardson,
The Monks,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Franke,
Warsaw,
Kool Moe Dee,
Vladislav Delay,
Pagans,
Faraquet,
Kenny Larkin,
The Smiths,
Jacques Brel,
Roy Ayers, Roy Ayers, Roy Ayers, Roy Ayers.
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.