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 Mauritius and from Paris.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the theremin 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 Mantronix to the crunk 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 The Sound. All the underground hits.
All Suicide tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Outsiders record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Kinks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Robert Görl,
U.S. Maple,
Delon & Dalcan,
China Crisis,
June Days,
Tubeway Army,
Cecil Taylor,
The Barracudas,
Danielle Patucci,
Q and Not U,
Television,
Kas Product,
Aaron Thompson,
Stetsasonic,
Kaleidoscope,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Alison Limerick,
Blossom Toes,
cv313,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Shoche,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Animal Collective,
Cal Tjader,
The Walker Brothers,
Stiv Bators,
The Zeros,
Porter Ricks,
Marvin Gaye,
The New Christs,
New York Dolls,
Matthew Bourne,
Warren Ellis,
Second Layer,
The Five Americans,
Hardrive,
Echospace,
Brothers Johnson,
Suburban Knight,
Motorama,
Delta 5,
The Tremeloes,
Joyce Sims,
Circle Jerks,
The Selecter,
Funky Four + One,
Lightning Bolt,
Henry Cow,
R.M.O.,
Radiopuhelimet,
Barry Ungar,
T.S.O.L.,
Joy Division,
The Beau Brummels,
48th St. Collective,
The Names,
Bush Tetras,
The Litter,
Livin' Joy,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Black Pus,
Pantytec,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
FM Einheit, FM Einheit, FM Einheit, FM Einheit.
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.