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 Uruguay and from Bremen.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 organ 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 Stetsasonic to the punk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Offenders. All the underground hits.
All Davy DMX tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dark Day 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sister Nancy,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Techniques,
Reagan Youth,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Colin Newman,
Sun Ra,
Gerry Rafferty,
Glambeats Corp.,
Amazonics,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Golliwogs,
New Order,
The Monochrome Set,
James White and The Blacks,
Tears for Fears,
The Cramps,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Electric Prunes,
Bronski Beat,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
This Heat,
Freddie Wadling,
In Retrospect,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Pantytec,
The Birthday Party,
LL Cool J,
The Standells,
The Grass Roots,
Ronan,
Wire,
Icehouse,
Chris & Cosey,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Moleskins,
The Black Dice,
Albert Ayler,
Second Layer,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Ponytail,
The Index,
Barbara Tucker,
Tim Buckley,
Joy Division,
Arcadia,
PIL,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Scientists,
Bill Near,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Wolf Eyes,
Crispian St. Peters,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Underground Resistance,
Archie Shepp,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Pylon,
Lightning Bolt,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Morten Harket, Morten Harket, Morten Harket, Morten Harket.
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.