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 Eritrea 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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the organ 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 Guru Guru to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Fat Boys. All the underground hits.
All Janne Schatter 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 punk 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 organ and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Half Japanese record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dave Gahan,
Boredoms,
Erykah Badu,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Amon Düül,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Groovy Waters,
The Gap Band,
Organ,
Metal Thangz,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Laurel Aitken,
Roger Hodgson,
Eddi Front,
Black Sheep,
Zero Boys,
Spandau Ballet,
AZ,
The Tremeloes,
The Birthday Party,
Wally Richardson,
New Age Steppers,
Parry Music,
Gang Gang Dance,
cv313,
Peter and Kerry,
Joy Division,
Brothers Johnson,
Supertramp,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Human League,
Warren Ellis,
Fatback Band,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Excepter,
Harpers Bizarre,
Deakin,
Faraquet,
The Flesh Eaters,
Eric B and Rakim,
Jeff Lynne,
Trumans Water,
La Düsseldorf,
Deadbeat,
ABBA,
Icehouse,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Porter Ricks,
Shuggie Otis,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Carl Craig,
Jawbox,
R.M.O.,
Brass Construction,
The Durutti Column,
In Retrospect,
Anakelly,
Underground Resistance,
Siglo XX,
Scrapy,
The Red Krayola, The Red Krayola, The Red Krayola, The Red Krayola.
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.