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 Sweden and from Mexico City.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the clarinet 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 The Beau Brummels to the dance 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 Matthew Halsall. All the underground hits.
All The Dave Clark Five tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dawn Penn 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alphaville record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Donny Hathaway,
B.T. Express,
June Days,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The J.B.'s,
Drexciya,
Public Image Ltd.,
Peter and Kerry,
48th St. Collective,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Danielle Patucci,
Siglo XX,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
JFA,
Ice-T,
Man Parrish,
Zapp,
The Star Department,
Blancmange,
Rufus Thomas,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Dave Gahan,
Hashim,
Porter Ricks,
Intrusion,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Kool Moe Dee,
Nik Kershaw,
Man Eating Sloth,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Chris & Cosey,
Soft Cell,
Soft Machine,
Cybotron,
Bob Dylan,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Happenings,
Suicide,
In Retrospect,
Aural Exciters,
Bush Tetras,
Quando Quango,
Hoover,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Delta 5,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
London Community Gospel Choir,
T.S.O.L.,
Harry Pussy,
David Axelrod,
The Barracudas,
Swans,
Tropical Tobacco,
Steve Hackett,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Shadows of Knight,
Masters at Work,
Alison Limerick,
Negative Approach,
Dawn Penn,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.