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 Croatia and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Liliput to the techno 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 Von Mondo. All the underground hits.
All Boz Scaggs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Smiths record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alphaville record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rhythm & Sound,
Pere Ubu,
Godley & Creme,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Gladiators,
China Crisis,
Curtis Mayfield,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Marcia Griffiths,
Nirvana,
The Human League,
The Buckinghams,
Skriet,
PIL,
The Count Five,
Slick Rick,
The Leaves,
David McCallum,
Clear Light,
The Fuzztones,
Rakim,
Kool Moe Dee,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Negative Approach,
Agent Orange,
Girls At Our Best!,
Grey Daturas,
Essential Logic,
Von Mondo,
Oneida,
Ituana,
Arcadia,
Echospace,
Monks,
Eric Dolphy,
Talk Talk,
Black Flag,
Marvin Gaye,
Bauhaus,
Hashim,
MC5,
Roxy Music,
Cybotron,
DJ Style,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Albert Ayler,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Porter Ricks,
Minutemen,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Parry Music,
Lebanon Hanover,
Idris Muhammad,
The Zeros,
Wire,
This Heat,
The New Christs,
Boz Scaggs,
Boredoms, Boredoms, Boredoms, Boredoms.
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.