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 Netherlands and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Joensuu 1685 to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 AZ. All the underground hits.
All Bobby Byrd tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Chocolate Watch Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 a 808 and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Theoretical Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Move,
Kool Moe Dee,
Warsaw,
Nik Kershaw,
The Sonics,
Peter & Gordon,
Stiv Bators,
Rufus Thomas,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Pere Ubu,
The Slackers,
Connie Case,
The Gap Band,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Cybotron,
The Motions,
Ralphi Rosario,
Joe Smooth,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Roxette,
Youth Brigade,
Bill Near,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Ken Boothe,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Fall,
Alphaville,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Kurtis Blow,
Boredoms,
the Slits,
Steve Hackett,
ABC,
Letta Mbulu,
Sister Nancy,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Von Mondo,
The Blues Magoos,
Kaleidoscope,
R.M.O.,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Lalann,
The Monochrome Set,
Crash Course in Science,
June of 44,
KRS-One,
the Bar-Kays,
The Doors,
Adolescents,
The Shadows of Knight,
Bill Wells,
David Bowie,
The Beau Brummels,
Neu!,
Nation of Ulysses,
Monolake,
Procol Harum,
The Skatalites,
Whodini,
New York Dolls,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band.
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.