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 Thailand and from Lagos.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Donny Hathaway to the grunge 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 Cluster. All the underground hits.
All Electric Light Orchestra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fire Engines 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Basic Channel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Ronan,
The Monochrome Set,
Hashim,
Sixth Finger,
The Searchers,
Minutemen,
Sound Behaviour,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Reuben Wilson,
Thee Headcoats,
Rosa Yemen,
Second Layer,
Hoover,
Iggy Pop,
the Sonics,
Scientists,
The Trojans,
Dawn Penn,
The Kinks,
The Invisible,
A Certain Ratio,
Quadrant,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Mo-Dettes,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Cramps,
Minnie Riperton,
The Standells,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
The Angels of Light,
Danielle Patucci,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
David Bowie,
Toni Rubio,
Wings,
Mary Jane Girls,
Cheater Slicks,
Agitation Free,
Terry Callier,
the Association,
The Velvet Underground,
Royal Trux,
Dark Day,
The Neon Judgement,
Reagan Youth,
Blake Baxter,
Organ,
Amon Düül II,
Mission of Burma,
The Moody Blues,
Bluetip,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Eurythmics,
China Crisis,
Piero Umiliani,
Basic Channel,
Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids.
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.