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 Singapore and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 harpsichord 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 Grandmaster Flash to the electroclash 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 Bootsy's Rubber Band. All the underground hits.
All Lucky Dragons tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nirvana 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Derrick Morgan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar 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?
Robert Görl,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Pantaleimon,
The Fortunes,
Black Sheep,
the Association,
The Associates,
Crooked Eye,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Joey Negro,
Ronan,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Flipper,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Hoover,
A Flock of Seagulls,
the Sonics,
Mo-Dettes,
Pagans,
Tubeway Army,
Ituana,
Gang Starr,
Toni Rubio,
The Invisible,
The Grass Roots,
Scientists,
Fear,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Nirvana,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Oneida,
Barclay James Harvest,
Donald Byrd,
Mandrill,
Grey Daturas,
Make Up,
Theoretical Girls,
The Golliwogs,
Jacques Brel,
DJ Style,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Crash Course in Science,
Unwound,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Delta 5,
Spandau Ballet,
Jeff Mills,
The United States of America,
Jeru the Damaja,
Bill Near,
Swell Maps,
Silicon Teens,
Organ,
Lucky Dragons,
Fatback Band,
Amon Düül,
Piero Umiliani,
Colin Newman,
The Toasters,
Eyeless In Gaza,
10cc,
The Gap Band,
Matthew Halsall, Matthew Halsall, Matthew Halsall, Matthew Halsall.
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.