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 Portugal and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Lille.
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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the snare 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 Sparks to the jazz 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 Slave. All the underground hits.
All Roy Ayers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Moby Grape 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Average White Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Liliput,
Skriet,
Bobby Sherman,
Niagra,
Al Stewart,
Rites of Spring,
Soulsonic Force,
Yaz,
These Immortal Souls,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Index,
The Martian,
Lyres,
Minny Pops,
John Cale,
Arthur Verocai,
Gastr Del Sol,
D'Angelo,
Graham Central Station,
The Angels of Light,
LL Cool J,
Black Flag,
The Fortunes,
Harpers Bizarre,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Babytalk,
Colin Newman,
Archie Shepp,
Q and Not U,
Porter Ricks,
In Retrospect,
Flash Fearless,
The Cramps,
New York Dolls,
Delon & Dalcan,
Radiopuhelimet,
Echospace,
the Association,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
the Human League,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Techniques,
Moebius,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Popol Vuh,
Von Mondo,
Procol Harum,
Groovy Waters,
This Heat,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Jeff Mills,
The Misunderstood,
The Detroit Cobras,
Reuben Wilson,
Reagan Youth,
K-Klass,
Sun City Girls,
DJ Sneak,
Harmonia,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Young Rascals,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Erykah Badu,
Janne Schatter, Janne Schatter, Janne Schatter, Janne Schatter.
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.