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 Sierra Leone and from Madrid.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 snare 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 Zapp to the grunge 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 Cybotron. All the underground hits.
All The Blackbyrds tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Y Pants record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Leaves record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Mojo Men,
Wire,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Ornette Coleman,
Porter Ricks,
The Cowsills,
John Cale,
Joy Division,
Pantaleimon,
The Trojans,
JFA,
Negative Approach,
Bush Tetras,
Maurizio,
LL Cool J,
Section 25,
Kool Moe Dee,
Frankie Knuckles,
Altered Images,
X-Ray Spex,
Harmonia,
Metal Thangz,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Wally Richardson,
Outsiders,
the Germs,
Urselle,
Pierre Henry,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Buckinghams,
Bobby Sherman,
Erykah Badu,
Gabor Szabo,
Nick Fraelich,
The Beau Brummels,
The Gladiators,
Man Parrish,
The Pretty Things,
Swans,
Archie Shepp,
Masters at Work,
The Remains,
David McCallum,
The Kinks,
Bob Dylan,
Basic Channel,
Warsaw,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Pet Shop Boys,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Evens,
Lower 48,
Symarip,
the Swans,
Boogie Down Productions,
Wolf Eyes,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Happenings,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.