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 Moldova and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Winnipeg.
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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Zeros to the rock kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Thee Headcoats. All the underground hits.
All Reagan Youth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Spoonie Gee 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soft Cell record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eyeless In Gaza,
Ossler,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Gil Scott Heron,
Nico,
The Offenders,
The Electric Prunes,
Brass Construction,
Robert Hood,
Eric B and Rakim,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Fuzztones,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Roy Ayers,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Scientists,
Sight & Sound,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Talk Talk,
The Seeds,
Derrick Morgan,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
John Coltrane,
Sun Ra,
The Durutti Column,
Al Stewart,
Oblivians,
Suicide,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Mary Jane Girls,
John Cale,
Siglo XX,
Flipper,
Archie Shepp,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Sam Rivers,
Nik Kershaw,
Black Moon,
The Last Poets,
ABC,
Whodini,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Sound Behaviour,
Cluster,
Amon Düül II,
Isaac Hayes,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Max Romeo,
The Gap Band,
Desert Stars,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Funky Four + One,
These Immortal Souls,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Clear Light,
La Düsseldorf,
Malaria!,
Massinfluence,
Young Marble Giants,
Flash Fearless,
The Star Department,
Lucky Dragons, Lucky Dragons, Lucky Dragons, Lucky Dragons.
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.