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 Zimbabwe and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1983 at the first Bronski Beat practice in a loft in Brixton.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Maleditus Sound. All the underground hits.
All Liaisons Dangereuses tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sexual Harrassment record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Idris Muhammad record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Aswad,
World's Most,
David Axelrod,
The Five Americans,
The Human League,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Rod Modell,
Basic Channel,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
X-Ray Spex,
Harmonia,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Barracudas,
Dead Boys,
Matthew Halsall,
The Neon Judgement,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Jeff Lynne,
Television Personalities,
Ludus,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Anthony Braxton,
It's A Beautiful Day,
the Fania All-Stars,
Gang of Four,
Albert Ayler,
Ten City,
Banda Bassotti,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Tremeloes,
The Vogues,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Black Moon,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Funky Four + One,
Morten Harket,
the Human League,
Idris Muhammad,
Hashim,
Oneida,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Durutti Column,
Frankie Knuckles,
Jacob Miller,
Nik Kershaw,
Absolute Body Control,
Hot Snakes,
The Sonics,
Roger Hodgson,
Delon & Dalcan,
Judy Mowatt,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Gang Starr,
Tears for Fears,
Steve Hackett,
Arab on Radar,
Depeche Mode,
Deakin,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Walker Brothers, The Walker Brothers, The Walker Brothers, The Walker Brothers.
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.