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 Chad and from Delhi.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Bill Wells to the punk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Susan Cadogan. All the underground hits.
All The Fall tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Human League 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Music Machine record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Matthew Bourne,
The Black Dice,
Dennis Brown,
June of 44,
Laurel Aitken,
Main Source,
Marmalade,
Faust,
Radiohead,
The Happenings,
Michelle Simonal,
Public Enemy,
Shoche,
Kevin Saunderson,
Alphaville,
The Tremeloes,
Popol Vuh,
The Monochrome Set,
Pulsallama,
Livin' Joy,
Pole,
Throbbing Gristle,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
AZ,
Max Romeo,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Pere Ubu,
Essential Logic,
Soulsonic Force,
Peter & Gordon,
Arcadia,
The Count Five,
Niagra,
Grey Daturas,
Malaria!,
Thee Headcoats,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Brick,
Curtis Mayfield,
Robert Hood,
Kas Product,
The Golliwogs,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Infiniti,
Jacques Brel,
Jacob Miller,
Slick Rick,
Black Sheep,
Aaron Thompson,
The American Breed,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Dawn Penn,
Pantytec,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
the Fania All-Stars,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Prince Buster,
Cymande,
Scratch Acid,
Johnny Clarke,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Ronan, Ronan, Ronan, Ronan.
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.