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 Chad and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the güiro 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 Jesper Dahlback to the grime 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 Quando Quango. All the underground hits.
All These Immortal Souls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Motions record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 clarinet and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Robert Görl record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Letta Mbulu,
Roxy Music,
PIL,
Tubeway Army,
The Moleskins,
Minor Threat,
the Association,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Ponytail,
Soft Machine,
Skaos,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Ossler,
Suicide,
R.M.O.,
Reuben Wilson,
Aswad,
Kaleidoscope,
A Certain Ratio,
Khruangbin,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Livin' Joy,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Joy Division,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Whodini,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Severed Heads,
The Beau Brummels,
The Motions,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Barracudas,
Dennis Brown,
Harmonia,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
X-101,
Nick Fraelich,
Dead Boys,
Jerry's Kids,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Archie Shepp,
Curtis Mayfield,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Inner City,
the Slits,
Iggy Pop,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Scrapy,
Barrington Levy,
Infiniti,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Cheater Slicks,
Nation of Ulysses,
Smog,
Joyce Sims,
Lalo Schifrin,
B.T. Express,
Mark Hollis,
Bootsy Collins,
The Human League,
10cc,
The Index,
Big Daddy Kane, Big Daddy Kane, Big Daddy Kane, Big Daddy Kane.
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.