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 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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Aural Exciters to the techno kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All Davy DMX tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jacob Miller 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Susan Cadogan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Prince Buster,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Faust,
Jawbox,
Deepchord,
John Cale,
Bizarre Inc.,
Das Ding,
Mary Jane Girls,
Scion,
The Sound,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Quadrant,
Peter and Kerry,
Newcleus,
David McCallum,
The Gories,
Wasted Youth,
Country Teasers,
Toni Rubio,
Laurel Aitken,
Dead Boys,
Robert Wyatt,
Rhythm & Sound,
Stereo Dub,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Sun City Girls,
Juan Atkins,
World's Most,
Chrome,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
T.S.O.L.,
Ultravox,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Theoretical Girls,
E-Dancer,
Flash Fearless,
Peter & Gordon,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Masters at Work,
Thompson Twins,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Harry Pussy,
Dark Day,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Gun Club,
Television Personalities,
Gong,
Black Sheep,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Khruangbin,
Sonic Youth,
Tommy Roe,
Janne Schatter,
The Black Dice,
R.M.O.,
Lucky Dragons,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Fatback Band,
Sight & Sound, Sight & Sound, Sight & Sound, Sight & Sound.
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.