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 Afghanistan and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the 808 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 Harmonia to the disco kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Piero Umiliani. All the underground hits.
All Pere Ubu tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Gun Club 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 an arpeggiator and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alphaville record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Silicon Teens,
Arab on Radar,
Lower 48,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Reuben Wilson,
Soulsonic Force,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Joe Smooth,
PIL,
Harpers Bizarre,
Alton Ellis,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Wally Richardson,
Cheater Slicks,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Mad Mike,
David Bowie,
Idris Muhammad,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Vladislav Delay,
Technova,
Albert Ayler,
Metal Thangz,
The Young Rascals,
Porter Ricks,
Dawn Penn,
Sällskapet,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Pagans,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Skriet,
Sparks,
Tears for Fears,
Iggy Pop,
Minnie Riperton,
The Monks,
Franke,
Whodini,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Ponytail,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Junior Murvin,
Livin' Joy,
Magma,
Radio Birdman,
The Neon Judgement,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The New Christs,
The Martian,
Qualms,
Chrome,
Public Image Ltd.,
Lalo Schifrin,
Yaz,
Boz Scaggs,
Dorothy Ashby,
New York Dolls,
Kerrie Biddell,
Susan Cadogan,
Bobby Byrd,
Brass Construction,
Dave Gahan, Dave Gahan, Dave Gahan, Dave Gahan.
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.