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 Bremen.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 organ 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 Television Personalities to the disco 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 Bill Wells. All the underground hits.
All Avey Tare tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rekid record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kool G Rap & DJ Polo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marcia Griffiths,
Stetsasonic,
Desert Stars,
Sound Behaviour,
The Motions,
The Smiths,
Lucky Dragons,
K-Klass,
Thompson Twins,
The Happenings,
Man Parrish,
Kerri Chandler,
Section 25,
Tres Demented,
Tommy Roe,
Crash Course in Science,
Technova,
Spoonie Gee,
Harmonia,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Buckinghams,
Dave Gahan,
Tubeway Army,
LL Cool J,
Bill Near,
The Vogues,
Warsaw,
CMW,
Khruangbin,
Barrington Levy,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Scott Walker,
New Age Steppers,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Golliwogs,
Fad Gadget,
The Gories,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
John Cale,
Quando Quango,
Amon Düül II,
Y Pants,
The Walker Brothers,
Porter Ricks,
Organ,
Nico,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Beau Brummels,
Danielle Patucci,
Alton Ellis,
Lee Hazlewood,
Zero Boys,
The Doors,
Black Pus,
The Neon Judgement,
Dead Boys,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Sound,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Skaos, Skaos, Skaos, Skaos.
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.