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 Yemen and from Bologna.
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 1968 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 808 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 Simply Red to the electroclash 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 Moebius. All the underground hits.
All Underground Resistance tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Simply Red 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Sisters of Mercy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Swell Maps,
Gang of Four,
Boogie Down Productions,
Moebius,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Lindisfarne,
Hoover,
Barbara Tucker,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Moby Grape,
Soulsonic Force,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Sex Pistols,
Scion,
Nick Fraelich,
Boz Scaggs,
Vladislav Delay,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Real Kids,
Avey Tare,
Scientists,
Jimmy McGriff,
Charles Mingus,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Lower 48,
Nas,
Scratch Acid,
Cheater Slicks,
The Smiths,
Big Daddy Kane,
Spandau Ballet,
Organ,
The Grass Roots,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Stiv Bators,
The Gap Band,
Delon & Dalcan,
Adolescents,
Jandek,
UT,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Young Rascals,
Chris Corsano,
The Selecter,
Scott Walker,
One Last Wish,
Todd Terry,
Donny Hathaway,
Pantaleimon,
Marc Almond,
Curtis Mayfield,
Outsiders,
The Electric Prunes,
Minor Threat,
Man Eating Sloth,
Fear,
The Tremeloes,
Popol Vuh,
Mark Hollis, Mark Hollis, Mark Hollis, Mark Hollis.
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.