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 Sweden and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 1983 at the first Bronski Beat practice in a loft in Brixton.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Suburban Knight to the rock 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 Lyres. All the underground hits.
All Gichy Dan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nico record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Magma record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ituana,
Anthony Braxton,
The Saints,
Flash Fearless,
Lungfish,
Amon Düül II,
Sam Rivers,
Maurizio,
Grandmaster Flash,
Bootsy Collins,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Erykah Badu,
Kas Product,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Crispy Ambulance,
Jeff Mills,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Aaron Thompson,
Isaac Hayes,
Al Stewart,
Donald Byrd,
Alton Ellis,
Mr. Review,
Flipper,
Fort Wilson Riot,
a-ha,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
These Immortal Souls,
Sarah Menescal,
The Tremeloes,
Gang of Four,
Rotary Connection,
The Gun Club,
Whodini,
The Cure,
The Gap Band,
Ronan,
New Age Steppers,
Sonic Youth,
Amazonics,
Amon Düül,
Can,
Rekid,
Sight & Sound,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Cameo,
Fugazi,
Terrestrial Tones,
Lower 48,
The Shadows of Knight,
Panda Bear,
Ultimate Spinach,
Derrick May,
Babytalk,
Traffic Nightmare,
Quando Quango,
Camouflage,
Man Parrish,
Lalann,
Wings,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Stiv Bators,
Siouxsie and the Banshees, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Siouxsie and the Banshees.
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.