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 United States and from Mexico City.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 808 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 Joey Negro to the funk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Five Americans. All the underground hits.
All Easy Going tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jeff Lynne,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Peter and Kerry,
Connie Case,
The Real Kids,
Pet Shop Boys,
KRS-One,
Essential Logic,
Wire,
James White and The Blacks,
Soft Cell,
The Cure,
The Zeros,
June Days,
Freddie Wadling,
Goldenarms,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
kango's stein massive,
DNA,
Robert Wyatt,
Mandrill,
Jacob Miller,
Von Mondo,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Aural Exciters,
Soul II Soul,
Eurythmics,
Slick Rick,
Maurizio,
The Angels of Light,
In Retrospect,
The Doors,
Throbbing Gristle,
X-Ray Spex,
Quantec,
Crash Course in Science,
Slave,
Faust,
Pussy Galore,
DJ Sneak,
Isaac Hayes,
Joe Finger,
The Gap Band,
Albert Ayler,
One Last Wish,
Donald Byrd,
Joyce Sims,
Byron Stingily,
Black Moon,
The Fortunes,
Organ,
Sexual Harrassment,
Deepchord,
Derrick Morgan,
Godley & Creme,
Wolf Eyes,
The Gladiators,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
John Cale,
Erasure,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Fugs,
The Victims, The Victims, The Victims, The Victims.
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.