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 Eritrea and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 sitar 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 Skaos to the crunk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 the Sonics. All the underground hits.
All Heaven 17 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lee Hazlewood record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Trojans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cheater Slicks,
Rapeman,
Darondo,
Aloha Tigers,
Second Layer,
The Wake,
Rod Modell,
Delon & Dalcan,
Carl Craig,
Camberwell Now,
Schoolly D,
X-101,
Los Fastidios,
Slick Rick,
Clear Light,
the Human League,
Lou Christie,
Zapp,
Gang Green,
Agitation Free,
Scratch Acid,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Kool Moe Dee,
Khruangbin,
The Associates,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Grass Roots,
In Retrospect,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Archie Shepp,
Eddi Front,
The Invisible,
The Zeros,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Lalo Schifrin,
Adolescents,
Black Flag,
The Sonics,
Rakim,
Alphaville,
Girls At Our Best!,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Dave Clark Five,
Negative Approach,
Michelle Simonal,
Graham Central Station,
The Divine Comedy,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Inner City,
Barclay James Harvest,
a-ha,
Ten City,
Surgeon,
The Pretty Things,
Banda Bassotti,
Piero Umiliani,
The Fugs,
Lebanon Hanover,
Davy DMX,
DJ Sneak,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry.
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.