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 Equatorial Guinea and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the 808 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the techno 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 Thinking Fellers Union Local 282. All the underground hits.
All Talk Talk tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every London Community Gospel Choir record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 mellotron and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sällskapet record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Audionom,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Tim Buckley,
Sällskapet,
Malaria!,
Sight & Sound,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Graham Central Station,
John Holt,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Lightning Bolt,
The Slits,
Funky Four + One,
The Blues Magoos,
Peter & Gordon,
Gong,
Gerry Rafferty,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Walker Brothers,
Q65,
A Certain Ratio,
Eve St. Jones,
Altered Images,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Johnny Clarke,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Joey Negro,
Clear Light,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Ituana,
The Mummies,
Trumans Water,
Livin' Joy,
Ultravox,
Jeff Lynne,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Guru Guru,
The Seeds,
Tubeway Army,
Delon & Dalcan,
David McCallum,
Fatback Band,
Piero Umiliani,
PIL,
Goldenarms,
Danielle Patucci,
Quantec,
Country Teasers,
Sparks,
Eddi Front,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Smiths,
Byron Stingily,
Hasil Adkins,
Gregory Isaacs,
Radiopuhelimet,
Panda Bear,
Buzzcocks, Buzzcocks, Buzzcocks, Buzzcocks.
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.