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 Norway and from London.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Nils Olav 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 Motorama. All the underground hits.
All a-ha tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Neu! 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kas Product record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
New Age Steppers,
Severed Heads,
DJ Style,
Marcia Griffiths,
Neil Young,
Steve Hackett,
UT,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Motorama,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Seeds,
Skaos,
Joe Smooth,
CMW,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Sister Nancy,
David Bowie,
The Residents,
Rites of Spring,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Golliwogs,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Warren Ellis,
Delon & Dalcan,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Clear Light,
The Smiths,
Monks,
Ultravox,
The Electric Prunes,
The Moody Blues,
ABBA,
Graham Central Station,
Archie Shepp,
Lungfish,
Matthew Halsall,
Sun City Girls,
Half Japanese,
Lucky Dragons,
Youth Brigade,
Johnny Clarke,
Sun Ra,
David McCallum,
Black Flag,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Prince Buster,
Nik Kershaw,
Y Pants,
Janne Schatter,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Thompson Twins,
The Trojans,
Crispian St. Peters,
10cc,
Pagans,
Idris Muhammad,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Kool Moe Dee,
Make Up,
Ice-T, Ice-T, Ice-T, Ice-T.
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.