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 Kenya and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1969 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 guitar 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 Neu! to the grime kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Neil Young & Crazy Horse. All the underground hits.
All Black Moon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marine Girls record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 clarinet and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Newcleus record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Robert Görl,
The Techniques,
Davy DMX,
Lucky Dragons,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Bobby Womack,
Alison Limerick,
Interpol,
Kenny Larkin,
Popol Vuh,
Rakim,
The Busters,
Funkadelic,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Deepchord,
Brand Nubian,
Crooked Eye,
The Dead C,
Absolute Body Control,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Black Sheep,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Cramps,
Chris Corsano,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Toasters,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
E-Dancer,
Pole,
The Standells,
The Trojans,
Babytalk,
China Crisis,
a-ha,
Maurizio,
Anthony Braxton,
The Music Machine,
Jandek,
Dave Gahan,
Ice-T,
In Retrospect,
T.S.O.L.,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Lindisfarne,
Lightning Bolt,
Blake Baxter,
Susan Cadogan,
10cc,
X-102,
Lalo Schifrin,
X-Ray Spex,
Black Moon,
Camberwell Now,
Das Ding,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Accadde A,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Kinks,
Swans,
Negative Approach,
The Sound,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme, Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme, Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme, Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme.
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.