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 Russia and from Cairo.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 arpeggiator 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 The Mojo Men to the electroclash 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 Negative Approach. All the underground hits.
All Henry Cow tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mark Hollis record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Godley & Creme record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Electric Prunes,
D'Angelo,
The Residents,
Neu!,
CMW,
Khruangbin,
Eddi Front,
La Düsseldorf,
Outsiders,
Roxette,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Talk Talk,
Brass Construction,
Liliput,
Piero Umiliani,
Amon Düül,
Ossler,
Bill Near,
Colin Newman,
The Stooges,
Duran Duran,
The Selecter,
Sight & Sound,
John Cale,
The Cowsills,
Mr. Review,
The Moleskins,
Q and Not U,
The Busters,
Arthur Verocai,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Martian,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Fear,
kango's stein massive,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Shoche,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Groovy Waters,
Banda Bassotti,
Intrusion,
The Trojans,
The Mummies,
Radiohead,
Skaos,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Joey Negro,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Main Source,
Grey Daturas,
Schoolly D,
Eli Mardock,
Bauhaus,
Fad Gadget,
Robert Hood,
Fela Kuti,
Television Personalities, Television Personalities, Television Personalities, Television Personalities.
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.