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 Panama and from Salvador.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the mellotron 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 The Birthday Party to the disco 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 Hasil Adkins. All the underground hits.
All Leonard Cohen tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Excepter 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rod Modell record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Josef K,
Traffic Nightmare,
Lucky Dragons,
The Electric Prunes,
Robert Görl,
Monolake,
Faraquet,
Metal Thangz,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Jesper Dahlback,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Terrestrial Tones,
The New Christs,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Dave Gahan,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Niagra,
Patti Smith,
Lebanon Hanover,
Kayak,
Stereo Dub,
Nik Kershaw,
The Selecter,
These Immortal Souls,
The Angels of Light,
Jerry's Kids,
Depeche Mode,
Jimmy McGriff,
DJ Sneak,
Jandek,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Babytalk,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Fugazi,
Sun City Girls,
Magazine,
The Walker Brothers,
Soul II Soul,
Vainqueur,
Section 25,
Vladislav Delay,
The Fire Engines,
The Dave Clark Five,
Wally Richardson,
Todd Terry,
Soulsonic Force,
Ronnie Foster,
Scrapy,
Tommy Roe,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Zeros,
June of 44,
Duran Duran,
Leonard Cohen,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Cosmic Jokers,
DJ Style,
Sam Rivers,
Roy Ayers,
Joensuu 1685,
Harry Pussy,
Simply Red, Simply Red, Simply Red, Simply Red.
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.