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 Italy and from Lille.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 cv313 to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 John Foxx. All the underground hits.
All Morten Harket tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Altered Images 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Curtis Mayfield record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soul Sonic Force,
Sparks,
Ludus,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Magma,
Aswad,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Country Teasers,
Dorothy Ashby,
Gang Green,
Freddie Wadling,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Rotary Connection,
Amon Düül II,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Wire,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Clear Light,
The Gladiators,
Lee Hazlewood,
Sister Nancy,
Delon & Dalcan,
Glambeats Corp.,
PIL,
Duran Duran,
Barrington Levy,
Scientists,
The Move,
Quando Quango,
Lower 48,
CMW,
Niagra,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Be Bop Deluxe,
La Düsseldorf,
Soulsonic Force,
The Cowsills,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Donald Byrd,
Lou Reed,
The Blackbyrds,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Rufus Thomas,
The Gun Club,
Altered Images,
Blossom Toes,
Minnie Riperton,
Talk Talk,
Trumans Water,
The Litter,
Mission of Burma,
Lyres,
Maurizio,
Boredoms,
Cecil Taylor,
Moby Grape,
Jeru the Damaja,
Babytalk, Babytalk, Babytalk, Babytalk.
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.