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 Malta and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 Nile Rodgers 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 Absolute Body Control to the rock kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Pagans. All the underground hits.
All Jesper Dahlbäck tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camouflage 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bronski Beat record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gabor Szabo,
Zero Boys,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Flash Fearless,
Guru Guru,
Pantytec,
The Buckinghams,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Smoke,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Derrick Morgan,
Godley & Creme,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Litter,
Wasted Youth,
Jeff Lynne,
Dual Sessions,
Scott Walker,
X-102,
Eric B and Rakim,
Malaria!,
Rod Modell,
Swell Maps,
Kayak,
Johnny Clarke,
The Gap Band,
EPMD,
Pantaleimon,
The Flesh Eaters,
Arcadia,
The Tremeloes,
Outsiders,
Erykah Badu,
Gastr Del Sol,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Aural Exciters,
Eddi Front,
Lou Reed,
Lyres,
These Immortal Souls,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Yazoo,
Albert Ayler,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Interpol,
The Leaves,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Tears for Fears,
Pharoah Sanders,
the Human League,
Radio Birdman,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Angels of Light,
the Slits,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Model 500,
Niagra,
Shuggie Otis,
Angry Samoans,
Matthew Halsall,
Swans,
Black Bananas,
Peter & Gordon,
Trumans Water,
Derrick May, Derrick May, Derrick May, Derrick May.
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.