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 Yemen and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Manchester.
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 Tom Verlaine 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 Spandau Ballet to the rap kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Skarface. All the underground hits.
All Bluetip tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Gap Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Index record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nik Kershaw,
Gong,
X-Ray Spex,
Mandrill,
Trumans Water,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Invisible,
Soulsonic Force,
Neil Young,
CMW,
LL Cool J,
Pierre Henry,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Zeros,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Ken Boothe,
Tears for Fears,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Vladislav Delay,
Cybotron,
Flash Fearless,
Mo-Dettes,
K-Klass,
Vainqueur,
ABC,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Moleskins,
Alison Limerick,
Drexciya,
Hot Snakes,
Al Stewart,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
R.M.O.,
Ten City,
Kevin Saunderson,
48th St. Collective,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Motions,
Slick Rick,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Duran Duran,
Skarface,
Johnny Osbourne,
Banda Bassotti,
The Red Krayola,
Angry Samoans,
Susan Cadogan,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Associates,
Eden Ahbez,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Barry Ungar,
Clear Light,
the Fania All-Stars,
Groovy Waters,
Sparks,
Johnny Clarke,
Porter Ricks,
Absolute Body Control,
Skriet,
New Age Steppers,
Rapeman, Rapeman, Rapeman, Rapeman.
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.