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 Venezuela and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise 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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 organ 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 Echo & the Bunnymen to the rap kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Con Funk Shun. All the underground hits.
All Swans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every F. McDonald record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 synthesizer and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rosa Yemen record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nick Fraelich,
Boz Scaggs,
The Dave Clark Five,
Ten City,
The Human League,
Cluster,
Ornette Coleman,
the Fania All-Stars,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Monks,
Joensuu 1685,
Easy Going,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
DNA,
The Gladiators,
Panda Bear,
Marvin Gaye,
UT,
The Music Machine,
The Young Rascals,
Pulsallama,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Q65,
Dead Boys,
Swans,
John Lydon,
Au Pairs,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
T.S.O.L.,
Guru Guru,
Girls At Our Best!,
Crispy Ambulance,
LL Cool J,
Saccharine Trust,
Half Japanese,
Gerry Rafferty,
Skarface,
Neu!,
Clear Light,
Surgeon,
Dark Day,
Dawn Penn,
Moss Icon,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Cheater Slicks,
The Move,
Public Enemy,
Ultravox,
Fluxion,
Henry Cow,
Babytalk,
Morten Harket,
The Fortunes,
Crispian St. Peters,
Deepchord,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Liliput,
Radiohead,
the Human League,
Brand Nubian,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.