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 Netherlands and from Manchester.
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 Salvador and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Dennis Brown to the dance 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 UT. All the underground hits.
All Subhumans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pere Ubu record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Black Dice record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Youth Brigade,
Model 500,
Mantronix,
Dave Gahan,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Peter and Kerry,
Sparks,
Wolf Eyes,
Andrew Hill,
Max Romeo,
Crooked Eye,
Black Bananas,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Scratch Acid,
Lalo Schifrin,
Toni Rubio,
Quando Quango,
Royal Trux,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Crispy Ambulance,
Derrick May,
Agent Orange,
Faust,
Pharoah Sanders,
Pagans,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Monks,
Yusef Lateef,
Terry Callier,
Charles Mingus,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Avey Tare,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Archie Shepp,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Pole,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Barry Ungar,
Scion,
Mad Mike,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Scan 7,
The Doors,
Donald Byrd,
Procol Harum,
Colin Newman,
Black Pus,
Frankie Knuckles,
Warren Ellis,
Brass Construction,
Index,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Visage,
Intrusion,
Bronski Beat,
The Gun Club,
Shuggie Otis,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Moody Blues,
Erykah Badu,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.