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 Equatorial Guinea and from Houston.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Sunsets and Hearts to the jazz kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 JFA. All the underground hits.
All Lebanon Hanover tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joensuu 1685 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Robert Görl record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Wings,
kango's stein massive,
Bobby Byrd,
Patti Smith,
Joensuu 1685,
Brand Nubian,
Technova,
the Normal,
Sun City Girls,
A Certain Ratio,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Grauzone,
The Vogues,
Danielle Patucci,
Zero Boys,
Flamin' Groovies,
Lou Christie,
Rosa Yemen,
One Last Wish,
Althea and Donna,
Delta 5,
DJ Style,
Donald Byrd,
Eric Dolphy,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Trojans,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Pop Group,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Roxy Music,
The Fortunes,
Brothers Johnson,
Duran Duran,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
CMW,
Groovy Waters,
Crooked Eye,
Television,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Carl Craig,
Soft Cell,
Suburban Knight,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Soul II Soul,
Yaz,
Rhythm & Sound,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Star Department,
The United States of America,
Desert Stars,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Josef K,
The Dead C,
The American Breed,
a-ha,
Joy Division,
Pussy Galore,
Easy Going,
Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz.
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.