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 Antigua and from Jakarta.
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 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Monolake to the dance 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 Dawn Penn. All the underground hits.
All Circle Jerks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dawn Penn 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ossler record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Outsiders,
Jawbox,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Kurtis Blow,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
D'Angelo,
Theoretical Girls,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Toasters,
Sight & Sound,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Simply Red,
Big Daddy Kane,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Eve St. Jones,
Minny Pops,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Index,
Boz Scaggs,
Pussy Galore,
Robert Görl,
This Heat,
Marine Girls,
Von Mondo,
Tears for Fears,
Aural Exciters,
The Techniques,
the Swans,
Ice-T,
Sun Ra,
Organ,
Kas Product,
Graham Central Station,
Bill Wells,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Mary Jane Girls,
Hashim,
Camouflage,
The Litter,
Heaven 17,
the Human League,
Funky Four + One,
Avey Tare,
Delon & Dalcan,
F. McDonald,
Accadde A,
Q and Not U,
Agent Orange,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Sex Pistols,
Boredoms,
Pulsallama,
Amon Düül,
Country Teasers,
Kool Moe Dee,
World's Most,
Eurythmics,
Jeff Mills,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Fugs,
Dead Boys,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud.
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.