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 Slovenia and from Delhi.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 mellotron 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 Pantytec to the techno kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 David McCallum. All the underground hits.
All Bootsy Collins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rhythm & Sound record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a KRS-One record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Colin Newman,
Quando Quango,
Pantaleimon,
Nick Fraelich,
Nico,
Organ,
Supertramp,
Tom Boy,
Hoover,
Echospace,
kango's stein massive,
Sandy B,
Lightning Bolt,
The Wake,
Faust,
Half Japanese,
Nik Kershaw,
Robert Görl,
Stetsasonic,
The Saints,
Alison Limerick,
June Days,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
AZ,
Dave Gahan,
China Crisis,
Sonic Youth,
Quadrant,
Flash Fearless,
The Residents,
Dead Boys,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Fela Kuti,
Aloha Tigers,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Anthony Braxton,
Erasure,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Shadows of Knight,
the Normal,
Piero Umiliani,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Moss Icon,
The Cramps,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
the Bar-Kays,
Scrapy,
Grandmaster Flash,
Skriet,
Crime,
UT,
Mark Hollis,
The Neon Judgement,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Toasters,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Surgeon,
R.M.O.,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Roy Ayers, Roy Ayers, Roy Ayers, Roy Ayers.
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.