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 Mozambique and from Tokyo.
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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 CMW to the rock 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 Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme. All the underground hits.
All Barclay James Harvest tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eve St. Jones record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 an arpeggiator and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kango’s Stein Massive record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roxy Music,
The Zeros,
Urselle,
Eden Ahbez,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Dave Gahan,
Matthew Halsall,
Bronski Beat,
Jesper Dahlback,
Blake Baxter,
Danielle Patucci,
The Music Machine,
The Divine Comedy,
Das Ding,
Joe Finger,
Grey Daturas,
Pole,
Buzzcocks,
Monolake,
Minor Threat,
The Associates,
Traffic Nightmare,
Qualms,
The Count Five,
Con Funk Shun,
Jandek,
Quando Quango,
Rites of Spring,
Electric Prunes,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Electric Prunes,
Skaos,
Sixth Finger,
Dark Day,
Fluxion,
Icehouse,
Basic Channel,
The Human League,
Clear Light,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Sonny Sharrock,
Sound Behaviour,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Joey Negro,
Jeff Lynne,
Lee Hazlewood,
Crispy Ambulance,
Von Mondo,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
PIL,
Radio Birdman,
Anakelly,
Faraquet,
Lalo Schifrin,
Ludus,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Index,
Sällskapet,
Kool Moe Dee,
Juan Atkins,
Yellowson, Yellowson, Yellowson, Yellowson.
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.