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 Afghanistan and from Tokyo.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Stetsasonic to the punk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Flash Fearless. All the underground hits.
All Pulsallama tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every This Heat record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marine Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Johnny Osbourne,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Sexual Harrassment,
Bootsy Collins,
Boredoms,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Guru Guru,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Detroit Cobras,
James White and The Blacks,
The Grass Roots,
Peter & Gordon,
Silicon Teens,
Alphaville,
The Residents,
Severed Heads,
Massinfluence,
Zapp,
Pierre Henry,
Deakin,
the Soft Cell,
Marc Almond,
Vainqueur,
UT,
New Age Steppers,
The Standells,
Minor Threat,
Section 25,
Sixth Finger,
Roxy Music,
The Young Rascals,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Japan,
Underground Resistance,
The New Christs,
The Shadows of Knight,
Hashim,
Sällskapet,
Scott Walker,
Ten City,
Pole,
Pulsallama,
Chris & Cosey,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Todd Rundgren,
The Birthday Party,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Tommy Roe,
Mary Jane Girls,
Country Teasers,
The Move,
Barbara Tucker,
Kool Moe Dee,
Rapeman,
Gang Starr,
Echospace,
Barry Ungar,
Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685.
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.