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 Russia and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 synthesizer 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 Jeff Lynne to the techno kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Ultravox. All the underground hits.
All Dorothy Ashby tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rod Modell record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 an arpeggiator and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Procol Harum record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Easy Going,
Roger Hodgson,
Eden Ahbez,
Inner City,
Skarface,
Faraquet,
Donald Byrd,
The Pretty Things,
The Buckinghams,
World's Most,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
the Slits,
Jacob Miller,
Suicide,
The Techniques,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Unrelated Segments,
Whodini,
Banda Bassotti,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Public Enemy,
Public Image Ltd.,
Jeff Mills,
Charles Mingus,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Intrusion,
Dual Sessions,
Darondo,
Stockholm Monsters,
Underground Resistance,
Joensuu 1685,
Pylon,
Moss Icon,
China Crisis,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Nation of Ulysses,
Electric Prunes,
AZ,
Trumans Water,
Mantronix,
The New Christs,
The Leaves,
Gichy Dan,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Todd Terry,
Cameo,
Throbbing Gristle,
Ken Boothe,
Roxy Music,
Yazoo,
Kerrie Biddell,
Minny Pops,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Ultimate Spinach,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Ten City,
Echospace,
Nik Kershaw, Nik Kershaw, Nik Kershaw, Nik Kershaw.
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.