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 Andorra and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 Beijing and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1983 at the first Bronski Beat practice in a loft in Brixton.
I was working on the theremin 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 The Star Department to the punk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Siglo XX. All the underground hits.
All the Normal tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kayak record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 synthesizer and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aural Exciters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Jeru the Damaja,
F. McDonald,
EPMD,
Sam Rivers,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Bootsy Collins,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Popol Vuh,
The Black Dice,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Pagans,
Joy Division,
OOIOO,
The Fall,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Simply Red,
Cybotron,
James White and The Blacks,
Wire,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Sound,
June Days,
Ponytail,
Khruangbin,
The American Breed,
Curtis Mayfield,
Gong,
The Leaves,
The Knickerbockers,
Sandy B,
Boredoms,
Flipper,
Anthony Braxton,
Frankie Knuckles,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Evens,
Brass Construction,
Freddie Wadling,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Neon Judgement,
Leonard Cohen,
Barrington Levy,
Heaven 17,
Black Flag,
Eric Copeland,
The Last Poets,
Soulsonic Force,
The Electric Prunes,
Idris Muhammad,
Johnny Clarke,
Scott Walker,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Toasters,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Mojo Men,
Aloha Tigers,
Blake Baxter,
Sight & Sound,
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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.
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