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 Italy and from Toronto.
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 1960 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 guitar 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 Inner City to the disco kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 The Moody Blues. All the underground hits.
All Traffic Nightmare tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sly & The Family Stone record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 an organ and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
FM Einheit,
Sällskapet,
Bob Dylan,
Bizarre Inc.,
Skriet,
Supertramp,
Marmalade,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Roxette,
Andrew Hill,
Isaac Hayes,
Curtis Mayfield,
H. Thieme,
Charles Mingus,
The Kinks,
In Retrospect,
Pet Shop Boys,
Suicide,
Patti Smith,
X-101,
Boz Scaggs,
Sarah Menescal,
The Misunderstood,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Nik Kershaw,
Main Source,
Aloha Tigers,
Aswad,
B.T. Express,
Eden Ahbez,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
a-ha,
Jeff Mills,
Technova,
Big Daddy Kane,
Bill Near,
Soulsonic Force,
Funkadelic,
EPMD,
Mission of Burma,
Pere Ubu,
Prince Buster,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Alton Ellis,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Judy Mowatt,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Todd Terry,
Fela Kuti,
Angry Samoans,
the Germs,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Stetsasonic,
Warsaw,
Ronan,
Avey Tare,
Amon Düül,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Hasil Adkins,
Hashim,
Chris Corsano,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy's Rubber Band.
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.