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 Jordan and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Bronski Beat show in Brixton.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Mexico City.
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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 MDC to the rock kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Gabor Szabo. All the underground hits.
All The Associates tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tommy Roe record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gang Gang Dance record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Technova,
Country Teasers,
Organ,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Easy Going,
Ralphi Rosario,
Talk Talk,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Bauhaus,
Deadbeat,
Icehouse,
The Electric Prunes,
New Order,
Skaos,
Roger Hodgson,
Delta 5,
The Misunderstood,
Joensuu 1685,
The Gap Band,
Panda Bear,
Tim Buckley,
The Sonics,
Jacob Miller,
Smog,
Agitation Free,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Sound,
Suburban Knight,
FM Einheit,
The J.B.'s,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Cowsills,
Eden Ahbez,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Wake,
Faust,
Main Source,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Stereo Dub,
Lalo Schifrin,
Ken Boothe,
Yaz,
Symarip,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Todd Terry,
Pantaleimon,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Arthur Verocai,
Roxette,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Brothers Johnson,
Junior Murvin,
Qualms,
Tommy Roe,
EPMD,
Gil Scott Heron,
Saccharine Trust,
T. Rex,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Scott Walker + Sunn O))).
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.