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 Liechtenstein and from Paris.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Toronto.
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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the 808 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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel to the techno 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 Glambeats Corp.. All the underground hits.
All Absolute Body Control tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Zapp 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aloha Tigers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Public Image Ltd.,
Boogie Down Productions,
New York Dolls,
Moby Grape,
Black Flag,
K-Klass,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Skarface,
Echospace,
Severed Heads,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
LL Cool J,
Harpers Bizarre,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Janne Schatter,
Mad Mike,
Man Eating Sloth,
Jesper Dahlback,
Soft Cell,
8 Eyed Spy,
Godley & Creme,
Brothers Johnson,
cv313,
Magazine,
The Cramps,
UT,
Aswad,
The Alarm Clocks,
Bootsy Collins,
Bush Tetras,
Essential Logic,
Ohio Players,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Section 25,
Morten Harket,
Colin Newman,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Bill Wells,
Lakeside,
Funky Four + One,
New Order,
Smog,
Amon Düül II,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Selecter,
MDC,
Pet Shop Boys,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
One Last Wish,
Peter and Kerry,
Alton Ellis,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
48th St. Collective,
Grandmaster Flash,
Porter Ricks,
Marvin Gaye,
Prince Buster,
Parry Music,
Sister Nancy,
The Kinks,
Ten City, Ten City, Ten City, Ten City.
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.