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 Nauru and from Bologna.
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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 clarinet 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 The Modern Lovers to the techno 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 In Retrospect. All the underground hits.
All Average White Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dave Gahan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Albert Ayler,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Electric Prunes,
Underground Resistance,
Vladislav Delay,
Neil Young,
X-102,
Gichy Dan,
Marine Girls,
Tim Buckley,
the Fania All-Stars,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
DJ Sneak,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Nick Fraelich,
Harmonia,
Gang Starr,
David McCallum,
Tomorrow,
The Walker Brothers,
Warsaw,
Second Layer,
Depeche Mode,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The J.B.'s,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Toasters,
Deakin,
Tubeway Army,
Rakim,
Jeff Mills,
Sällskapet,
Rhythm & Sound,
Michelle Simonal,
Kurtis Blow,
Dark Day,
Average White Band,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Remains,
Cal Tjader,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Dead C,
Joy Division,
Black Moon,
PIL,
Monks,
Johnny Clarke,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Index,
The Associates,
Ice-T,
Stockholm Monsters,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Wake,
Jeru the Damaja,
Vainqueur,
Mo-Dettes,
Heaven 17,
Glambeats Corp.,
Nas,
The Doors,
The Cramps,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.