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 Argentina and from Beijing.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 808 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 Be Bop Deluxe to the funk 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 Gregory Isaacs. All the underground hits.
All Black Bananas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 harpsichord and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Brothers Johnson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Technova,
Roxette,
The Monochrome Set,
Derrick Morgan,
Reagan Youth,
Radiopuhelimet,
John Holt,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Bobby Sherman,
Warsaw,
Ice-T,
Scientists,
Skriet,
Jimmy McGriff,
Soft Machine,
The Walker Brothers,
Silicon Teens,
Second Layer,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Archie Shepp,
Shoche,
Flipper,
Sight & Sound,
DNA,
The J.B.'s,
The Divine Comedy,
Roy Ayers,
The Remains,
Trumans Water,
Arab on Radar,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Tremeloes,
Alison Limerick,
Bizarre Inc.,
Brass Construction,
Godley & Creme,
Tom Boy,
Babytalk,
Bootsy Collins,
Fad Gadget,
Sam Rivers,
The Neon Judgement,
Faust,
Joy Division,
the Germs,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Average White Band,
Erasure,
Angry Samoans,
Depeche Mode,
The Barracudas,
The Gories,
JFA,
Black Sheep,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Echospace,
Franke,
Scan 7,
Robert Wyatt,
China Crisis, China Crisis, China Crisis, China Crisis.
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.