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 Papua New Guinea and from Jakarta.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 linndrum 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 Black Pus to the rap 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 Minny Pops. All the underground hits.
All Danielle Patucci tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Real Kids 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Golliwogs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Remains,
Das Ding,
Sight & Sound,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
the Swans,
Scan 7,
Wings,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Lou Reed,
Davy DMX,
Flash Fearless,
K-Klass,
Howard Jones,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Theoretical Girls,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Robert Hood,
Moebius,
Josef K,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Trumans Water,
D'Angelo,
Jeff Lynne,
The Slackers,
Joey Negro,
Faust,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Royal Trux,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Bush Tetras,
Gang Green,
KRS-One,
ABBA,
MC5,
Grauzone,
The Leaves,
Sex Pistols,
Fluxion,
Terrestrial Tones,
Groovy Waters,
Marcia Griffiths,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Invisible,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
the Sonics,
The Fuzztones,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Colin Newman,
Shoche,
Susan Cadogan,
Roy Ayers,
Kas Product,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Jesper Dahlback,
the Bar-Kays,
Soulsonic Force,
Gerry Rafferty,
Altered Images,
the Normal,
Gang Gang Dance,
Niagra,
Mary Jane Girls,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.