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 Korea South and from Copenhagen.
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 1962 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Black Flag to the disco 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 The Gap Band. All the underground hits.
All Livin' Joy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marvin Gaye record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eyeless In Gaza,
Delta 5,
Todd Rundgren,
Fatback Band,
Underground Resistance,
Rapeman,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Scan 7,
Negative Approach,
Lebanon Hanover,
Camberwell Now,
The Gap Band,
Sparks,
Freddie Wadling,
Q65,
The Pretty Things,
cv313,
Minnie Riperton,
Bobby Sherman,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
CMW,
Organ,
Masters at Work,
Khruangbin,
Wally Richardson,
The Skatalites,
The Golliwogs,
Franke,
Letta Mbulu,
Sun City Girls,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Brick,
R.M.O.,
Dave Gahan,
Schoolly D,
Q and Not U,
Nick Fraelich,
Simply Red,
Jeff Lynne,
Minutemen,
Subhumans,
Agitation Free,
Public Enemy,
Bronski Beat,
Spandau Ballet,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Mummies,
The Angels of Light,
Crash Course in Science,
Maleditus Sound,
Scratch Acid,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Stiv Bators,
Derrick Morgan,
June of 44,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Index,
Saccharine Trust,
Rhythm & Sound,
Peter & Gordon,
The Leaves, The Leaves, The Leaves, The Leaves.
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.