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 United States and from Spokane.
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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 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 Be Bop Deluxe to the electroclash 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 Malaria!. All the underground hits.
All Echo & the Bunnymen tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Monolake 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gary Puckett & The Union Gap record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Beasts of Bourbon,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Slits,
Rotary Connection,
The Human League,
Skarface,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Robert Hood,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Tremeloes,
The Birthday Party,
The Invisible,
Sound Behaviour,
Sun City Girls,
Ponytail,
Patti Smith,
Monolake,
The Detroit Cobras,
Absolute Body Control,
Faraquet,
Al Stewart,
Jawbox,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Frankie Knuckles,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Mark Hollis,
Infiniti,
The Sisters of Mercy,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
X-102,
Cheater Slicks,
The Skatalites,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Grandmaster Flash,
Scan 7,
E-Dancer,
Ohio Players,
The Divine Comedy,
Tom Boy,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Cybotron,
Aural Exciters,
The Gladiators,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Smog,
Moby Grape,
The Toasters,
Roger Hodgson,
Mission of Burma,
The Real Kids,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Black Pus,
Pantytec,
Man Eating Sloth,
The American Breed,
Peter and Kerry,
The Mummies,
Mary Jane Girls,
Lalann,
La Düsseldorf,
Audionom, Audionom, Audionom, Audionom.
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.