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 Palau and from Jakarta.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Ice-T to the dance 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 Cameo. All the underground hits.
All Fluxion tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Gap Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 oboe and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Goldenarms record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Seeds,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Todd Terry,
David Axelrod,
Anakelly,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Rhythm & Sound,
Man Parrish,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Sun Ra,
Suicide,
Delta 5,
Pussy Galore,
The Modern Lovers,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
This Heat,
The New Christs,
The Pretty Things,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Trumans Water,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Deakin,
Bill Wells,
The Evens,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
10cc,
Charles Mingus,
Jeff Mills,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Move,
Throbbing Gristle,
David Bowie,
Cybotron,
the Soft Cell,
Sound Behaviour,
Soulsonic Force,
Wings,
Deadbeat,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Maurizio,
The Beau Brummels,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Boredoms,
Robert Wyatt,
Lungfish,
Eden Ahbez,
Yaz,
Nico,
R.M.O.,
Chris & Cosey,
Agent Orange,
DNA,
The Motions,
Iggy Pop,
MC5,
The Moleskins,
Barry Ungar,
The Fortunes,
Organ,
The Techniques,
Amon Düül II, Amon Düül II, Amon Düül II, Amon Düül II.
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.