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 Dominica and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 Johannesburg and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Rhythim Is Rhythim to the punk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Rod Modell. All the underground hits.
All ABBA tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Q and Not U record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 guitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Swell Maps record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Black Moon,
The Shadows of Knight,
Underground Resistance,
Dave Gahan,
Banda Bassotti,
Roxy Music,
Fad Gadget,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Section 25,
Henry Cow,
Franke,
Jimmy McGriff,
Tommy Roe,
Delon & Dalcan,
Fela Kuti,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Groovy Waters,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Jacob Miller,
The Walker Brothers,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
H. Thieme,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Evens,
Chris Corsano,
Lightning Bolt,
Blossom Toes,
Talk Talk,
Easy Going,
Kayak,
This Heat,
Althea and Donna,
KRS-One,
Wolf Eyes,
June Days,
Alton Ellis,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Divine Comedy,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Anthony Braxton,
Wasted Youth,
Kerrie Biddell,
Sonny Sharrock,
Blancmange,
Hardrive,
Peter & Gordon,
Tubeway Army,
Sixth Finger,
Negative Approach,
Symarip,
Depeche Mode,
Idris Muhammad,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Pop Group,
Gil Scott Heron,
Sandy B,
Ludus,
Smog,
Derrick Morgan,
Joy Division,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set.
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.