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 Russia and from Bologna.
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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Sonics to the funk 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 8 Eyed Spy. All the underground hits.
All Deakin tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Interpol 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jeff Mills record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Monochrome Set,
The Associates,
Aloha Tigers,
Joyce Sims,
Wire,
Essential Logic,
Black Bananas,
Pharoah Sanders,
Au Pairs,
Hashim,
Lightning Bolt,
CMW,
Fela Kuti,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Shoche,
X-101,
kango's stein massive,
Rotary Connection,
The Standells,
Hardrive,
The Fuzztones,
Rufus Thomas,
Tears for Fears,
Siglo XX,
Kerrie Biddell,
Joey Negro,
Second Layer,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Anakelly,
Mark Hollis,
Tomorrow,
Ice-T,
Peter and Kerry,
Sugar Minott,
Lou Reed,
Agent Orange,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Fatback Band,
Hoover,
Arthur Verocai,
Judy Mowatt,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
U.S. Maple,
The Techniques,
Interpol,
UT,
The Invisible,
cv313,
The Grass Roots,
Gichy Dan,
The Five Americans,
The Cowsills,
Althea and Donna,
Quadrant,
Chris & Cosey,
Adolescents,
The Doors,
The Busters,
Leonard Cohen,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Pantaleimon,
The Pretty Things, The Pretty Things, The Pretty Things, The Pretty Things.
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.