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 Austria and from Madrid.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Beijing.
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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the marimba 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 Qualms to the punk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Ten City. All the underground hits.
All Can tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sparks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grandmaster Flash record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Mummies,
Chris & Cosey,
In Retrospect,
Accadde A,
Little Man,
Avey Tare,
Goldenarms,
The Modern Lovers,
Depeche Mode,
The Electric Prunes,
The Moody Blues,
Stetsasonic,
Crispian St. Peters,
Girls At Our Best!,
MDC,
One Last Wish,
The Smoke,
The Five Americans,
Index,
The Blackbyrds,
Joe Finger,
Zapp,
Yaz,
Peter and Kerry,
Ituana,
Nico,
Glenn Branca,
PIL,
Clear Light,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
David Axelrod,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Grass Roots,
Livin' Joy,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Pylon,
OOIOO,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Cowsills,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Lower 48,
Sun Ra,
Alton Ellis,
Anakelly,
Gabor Szabo,
Ludus,
Curtis Mayfield,
CMW,
Stiv Bators,
Massinfluence,
The Doors,
Pantytec,
Von Mondo,
The Skatalites,
World's Most,
Boogie Down Productions,
Kevin Saunderson,
Graham Central Station,
Joy Division,
Supertramp,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Nas,
Throbbing Gristle,
Ronnie Foster, Ronnie Foster, Ronnie Foster, Ronnie Foster.
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.