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 Germany and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Graham Central Station to the grunge 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 Lungfish. All the underground hits.
All cv313 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Erasure record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 marimba and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sex Pistols record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Martian,
Toni Rubio,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Yellowson,
Wire,
Guru Guru,
Mark Hollis,
Los Fastidios,
Scientists,
The Grass Roots,
Fluxion,
Brothers Johnson,
Con Funk Shun,
Warren Ellis,
the Human League,
Bizarre Inc.,
Youth Brigade,
Bush Tetras,
Heaven 17,
Black Moon,
Eve St. Jones,
Alphaville,
The Fall,
The Monks,
Rod Modell,
Cal Tjader,
Maleditus Sound,
The Shadows of Knight,
Roxy Music,
Monolake,
Sparks,
H. Thieme,
World's Most,
Icehouse,
Marine Girls,
Quando Quango,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Barracudas,
New Age Steppers,
Matthew Halsall,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Kas Product,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Visage,
Moby Grape,
The Evens,
Rufus Thomas,
Slick Rick,
Bobby Sherman,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
In Retrospect,
Magazine,
The Alarm Clocks,
Technova,
Byron Stingily,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
U.S. Maple,
Anthony Braxton,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Blackbyrds,
Unrelated Segments,
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.