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 Iceland and from Manila.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Neu! to the disco kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 James Chance & The Contortions. All the underground hits.
All Buzzcocks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sandy B 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Leonard Cohen record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Clear Light,
Half Japanese,
Freddie Wadling,
Dawn Penn,
Intrusion,
Television Personalities,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
H. Thieme,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Mojo Men,
Radiopuhelimet,
Kevin Saunderson,
Drexciya,
Quantec,
Roy Ayers,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Brothers Johnson,
Symarip,
Television,
Harmonia,
Minny Pops,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Sällskapet,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Neil Young,
Flipper,
Scrapy,
Ohio Players,
kango's stein massive,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Eden Ahbez,
Outsiders,
Boogie Down Productions,
Wire,
Johnny Osbourne,
Lalo Schifrin,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Aloha Tigers,
Sugar Minott,
Harpers Bizarre,
Arcadia,
Gastr Del Sol,
Skaos,
Jawbox,
Nico,
Can,
Joy Division,
Quadrant,
Bootsy Collins,
Depeche Mode,
Josef K,
The Litter,
LL Cool J,
Gong,
Bobby Sherman,
Marvin Gaye,
Marmalade,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Happenings,
Althea and Donna,
Eric Copeland, Eric Copeland, Eric Copeland, Eric Copeland.
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.