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 Sweden and from Tokyo.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Manchester.
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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Alphaville to the disco 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 Jerry's Kids. All the underground hits.
All Skriet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every CMW record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 mellotron and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Can record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Excepter,
Grey Daturas,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Toasters,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Index,
Marshall Jefferson,
Kevin Saunderson,
the Germs,
Wally Richardson,
Quantec,
Bush Tetras,
Harmonia,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Negative Approach,
John Coltrane,
Big Daddy Kane,
Lyres,
Ronnie Foster,
Organ,
Fat Boys,
Sonic Youth,
Thompson Twins,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Moody Blues,
Vladislav Delay,
The Kinks,
Erasure,
Jesper Dahlback,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Franke,
Stockholm Monsters,
Rapeman,
Sight & Sound,
Fear,
Scott Walker,
Blancmange,
The Evens,
La Düsseldorf,
Pulsallama,
Skriet,
The Pop Group,
Man Parrish,
Unrelated Segments,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
the Human League,
Public Enemy,
Deepchord,
DJ Sneak,
Visage,
Pharoah Sanders,
Brothers Johnson,
Darondo,
T.S.O.L.,
The Golliwogs,
The New Christs,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon.
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.