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 Syria and from Seoul.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai 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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Robert Hood to the disco 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 Das Ding. All the underground hits.
All Eden Ahbez tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every David McCallum record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alison Limerick record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ultimate Spinach,
Gang Green,
The Grass Roots,
Buzzcocks,
Jacques Brel,
Spoonie Gee,
Eddi Front,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Ludus,
Don Cherry,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Residents,
The Cure,
The Remains,
Symarip,
Dennis Brown,
Ice-T,
Ken Boothe,
DJ Style,
Man Parrish,
Stetsasonic,
Reuben Wilson,
Mad Mike,
Country Joe & The Fish,
China Crisis,
The Divine Comedy,
Wings,
Rekid,
Ronnie Foster,
Eli Mardock,
Isaac Hayes,
Jeff Mills,
Warren Ellis,
The Mummies,
Tommy Roe,
Fad Gadget,
Charles Mingus,
Skarface,
Metal Thangz,
E-Dancer,
Bad Manners,
The Dave Clark Five,
Goldenarms,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Lungfish,
The Pretty Things,
Ponytail,
Interpol,
Little Man,
Susan Cadogan,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Robert Hood,
10cc,
Surgeon,
Lightning Bolt,
Kurtis Blow,
Moebius,
PIL,
Altered Images,
Flamin' Groovies,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Rapeman,
Roxette, Roxette, Roxette, Roxette.
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.