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 Guatemala and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 chamberlin 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 Stockholm Monsters to the crunk 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 Joe Finger. All the underground hits.
All Theoretical Girls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Human League record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soul Sonic Force record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Silicon Teens,
Peter & Gordon,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Cowsills,
Slick Rick,
Massinfluence,
LL Cool J,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Flesh Eaters,
David Axelrod,
The Tremeloes,
David Bowie,
Animal Collective,
Agitation Free,
the Soft Cell,
Janne Schatter,
Newcleus,
Grey Daturas,
Motorama,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Fela Kuti,
Cymande,
Sound Behaviour,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Dave Gahan,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Half Japanese,
Cameo,
Juan Atkins,
Sugar Minott,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Aloha Tigers,
The Wake,
Au Pairs,
Drive Like Jehu,
Sister Nancy,
Banda Bassotti,
Delta 5,
Marcia Griffiths,
Oneida,
Duran Duran,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Blues Magoos,
Zapp,
Bush Tetras,
Agent Orange,
Marmalade,
Swans,
Funkadelic,
the Human League,
The Velvet Underground,
Pylon,
Ornette Coleman,
Nas,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Move,
Lindisfarne,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Count Five,
Lyres,
The Gap Band,
Lou Reed & John Cale, Lou Reed & John Cale, Lou Reed & John Cale, Lou Reed & John Cale.
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.