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 Philippines and from Seoul.
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 Tokyo and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Ronnie Foster to the techno 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 Main Source. All the underground hits.
All Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sound Behaviour record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 snare and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visage record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Michelle Simonal,
John Holt,
The Raincoats,
Shoche,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Excepter,
Bobby Sherman,
Theoretical Girls,
Toni Rubio,
Wally Richardson,
Bill Near,
Yusef Lateef,
David Axelrod,
Dorothy Ashby,
Davy DMX,
Q and Not U,
The Dave Clark Five,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Ten City,
The Misunderstood,
KRS-One,
Altered Images,
Black Sheep,
Jeff Lynne,
Schoolly D,
Sight & Sound,
The Walker Brothers,
Unrelated Segments,
Roxy Music,
Amon Düül,
The Tremeloes,
Aaron Thompson,
JFA,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Hoover,
Mantronix,
David McCallum,
Avey Tare,
The Alarm Clocks,
Radiopuhelimet,
Section 25,
The Fire Engines,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
the Fania All-Stars,
Soulsonic Force,
Mad Mike,
Ralphi Rosario,
Delta 5,
Scott Walker,
Tomorrow,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
MC5,
Boredoms,
Agent Orange,
Electric Prunes,
Robert Hood,
Lucky Dragons,
48th St. Collective,
Terrestrial Tones,
Magazine,
Marvin Gaye,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.