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 Zambia and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Index to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Strawberry Alarm Clock. All the underground hits.
All Janne Schatter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joyce Sims record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 a mellotron and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a La Düsseldorf record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dual Sessions,
The Gladiators,
Kenny Larkin,
Porter Ricks,
John Lydon,
ABBA,
Reagan Youth,
Mad Mike,
The Mummies,
Urselle,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Martian,
These Immortal Souls,
Echospace,
Heaven 17,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Underground Resistance,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Raincoats,
The Human League,
Q and Not U,
Massinfluence,
Ultimate Spinach,
Slick Rick,
Symarip,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Sixth Finger,
Animal Collective,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Saccharine Trust,
Pantytec,
Buzzcocks,
Ossler,
Pole,
The Gories,
Yazoo,
Rekid,
DNA,
Zero Boys,
Minnie Riperton,
D'Angelo,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Ronan,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Derrick Morgan,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
China Crisis,
Jeff Mills,
The Electric Prunes,
Bad Manners,
Chris Corsano,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
David McCallum,
Siglo XX,
Marshall Jefferson,
Public Enemy,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Shuggie Otis,
Soul II Soul,
Erasure,
The Cowsills,
Yaz,
Duran Duran, Duran Duran, Duran Duran, Duran Duran.
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.