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 Philippines and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 güiro 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 Marc Almond to the rap kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Eurythmics. All the underground hits.
All Ten City tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rhythim Is Rhythim record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Girls At Our Best! record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tres Demented,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Soulsonic Force,
The Fortunes,
X-Ray Spex,
UT,
Trumans Water,
The Cramps,
Aaron Thompson,
Talk Talk,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Lindisfarne,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Liliput,
the Slits,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Beau Brummels,
John Holt,
Black Bananas,
Kool Moe Dee,
Anakelly,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Animal Collective,
The Trojans,
Shoche,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Sonic Youth,
Hot Snakes,
Jeru the Damaja,
David Bowie,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Electric Prunes,
Graham Central Station,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Gong,
Danielle Patucci,
Matthew Bourne,
Bobby Byrd,
Infiniti,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Leaves,
Crooked Eye,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Grey Daturas,
Soft Machine,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Essential Logic,
Second Layer,
Rites of Spring,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Mighty Diamonds,
AZ,
Vainqueur,
Moss Icon,
Erasure,
Pet Shop Boys,
Fad Gadget,
X-101,
Jandek,
The Stooges,
The Velvet Underground,
Fluxion,
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.