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 Albania and from Hong Kong.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Josef K to the grime kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 DeepChord presents Echospace. All the underground hits.
All The American Breed tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Theoretical Girls 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Raincoats record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Arab on Radar,
The Toasters,
Sister Nancy,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Gregory Isaacs,
Eve St. Jones,
Rotary Connection,
Neil Young,
Talk Talk,
The Searchers,
H. Thieme,
Thompson Twins,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Sam Rivers,
Adolescents,
The Pop Group,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Grey Daturas,
the Slits,
Fatback Band,
Jandek,
Delta 5,
Joe Smooth,
Funkadelic,
Chrome,
10cc,
Aloha Tigers,
The Sonics,
Piero Umiliani,
Y Pants,
Smog,
Theoretical Girls,
FM Einheit,
Q65,
Bootsy Collins,
DNA,
Mary Jane Girls,
Wings,
Infiniti,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Outsiders,
The Techniques,
Stetsasonic,
The Leaves,
Jesper Dahlback,
Marmalade,
Sugar Minott,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Yazoo,
ABC,
The Moody Blues,
The Stooges,
Kerri Chandler,
Supertramp,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Five Americans,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
China Crisis,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Ornette Coleman, Ornette Coleman, Ornette Coleman, Ornette Coleman.
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.