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 Cyprus and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in 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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 snare 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 cv313 to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Urselle. All the underground hits.
All Max Romeo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Slick Rick 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gang of Four record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Delon & Dalcan,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Bronski Beat,
Deepchord,
Panda Bear,
Scan 7,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Kurtis Blow,
Smog,
Quadrant,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Dirtbombs,
Minnie Riperton,
Grauzone,
Adolescents,
Amon Düül II,
Moss Icon,
The Pretty Things,
Los Fastidios,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Marine Girls,
the Fania All-Stars,
Ronnie Foster,
Electric Prunes,
Chrome,
Sight & Sound,
Fat Boys,
Nirvana,
The Busters,
Toni Rubio,
Drexciya,
Crispy Ambulance,
Magma,
Scott Walker,
Kerri Chandler,
One Last Wish,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Radiohead,
T. Rex,
Arthur Verocai,
Motorama,
Fluxion,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
the Slits,
Peter & Gordon,
The Toasters,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Swell Maps,
Zero Boys,
The Tremeloes,
Unrelated Segments,
Jeff Lynne,
The Detroit Cobras,
Bobby Womack,
Yusef Lateef,
Cabaret Voltaire,
F. McDonald,
Shuggie Otis,
Man Eating Sloth,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Altered Images,
The Victims, The Victims, The Victims, The Victims.
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.