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 Peru and from Stockholm.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Sheep to the funk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Zapp. All the underground hits.
All The Royal Family And The Poor tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every ABBA 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tres Demented record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Essential Logic,
Kaleidoscope,
Dark Day,
The Five Americans,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Lee Hazlewood,
Second Layer,
Blossom Toes,
Crooked Eye,
Minnie Riperton,
Drexciya,
X-101,
Wolf Eyes,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Slits,
R.M.O.,
Dave Gahan,
Moebius,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Girls At Our Best!,
Camouflage,
Jacob Miller,
Prince Buster,
Angry Samoans,
Erasure,
Niagra,
Josef K,
Ludus,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Pierre Henry,
Charles Mingus,
Can,
Icehouse,
the Human League,
Fear,
Lungfish,
The Gories,
Lou Christie,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Eddi Front,
Skarface,
Cal Tjader,
The Modern Lovers,
Howard Jones,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Lower 48,
Nirvana,
Glenn Branca,
Ken Boothe,
Ronnie Foster,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Gregory Isaacs,
Sound Behaviour,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Rotary Connection,
Isaac Hayes,
Joey Negro,
The Walker Brothers,
Blancmange,
Electric Prunes, Electric Prunes, Electric Prunes, Electric Prunes.
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.