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 Qatar and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Easy Going to the funk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Derrick Morgan. All the underground hits.
All A Certain Ratio tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Youth Brigade record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Urselle record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Invisible,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Dark Day,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Names,
Nas,
X-Ray Spex,
Kurtis Blow,
Joensuu 1685,
Ludus,
The Gladiators,
Franke,
Cameo,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Joe Smooth,
Joy Division,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Jeff Lynne,
Albert Ayler,
Con Funk Shun,
The Mummies,
Lightning Bolt,
The Velvet Underground,
Q65,
John Lydon,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Soul Sonic Force,
Fluxion,
The Monks,
U.S. Maple,
Oblivians,
Excepter,
Siglo XX,
Sister Nancy,
Royal Trux,
Funkadelic,
Black Sheep,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Iggy Pop,
The Pretty Things,
Boogie Down Productions,
Vladislav Delay,
Erykah Badu,
Country Teasers,
Section 25,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
10cc,
Silicon Teens,
Motorama,
Interpol,
The Count Five,
Michelle Simonal,
Laurel Aitken,
The Trojans,
the Sonics,
The Grass Roots,
Alison Limerick,
Al Stewart,
Zapp,
June Days,
Jawbox,
H. Thieme,
Liaisons Dangereuses, Liaisons Dangereuses, Liaisons Dangereuses, Liaisons Dangereuses.
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.