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 Iran and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Stereo Dub to the dance kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Bush Tetras. All the underground hits.
All Guru Guru tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Birthday Party record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Massinfluence record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bronski Beat,
The Trojans,
Ludus,
Joey Negro,
DNA,
Ossler,
Adolescents,
Man Eating Sloth,
Bill Wells,
Unrelated Segments,
Scion,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Reuben Wilson,
The Techniques,
Hasil Adkins,
The Mojo Men,
Lou Christie,
The Gap Band,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Schoolly D,
OOIOO,
Barbara Tucker,
Anakelly,
The Blues Magoos,
The New Christs,
Lightning Bolt,
Terry Callier,
Con Funk Shun,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Don Cherry,
Mantronix,
The Associates,
The Shadows of Knight,
Monolake,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Thompson Twins,
Aloha Tigers,
Wally Richardson,
Agitation Free,
Cal Tjader,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Scientists,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Human League,
World's Most,
Aaron Thompson,
Excepter,
Infiniti,
Minutemen,
Rosa Yemen,
Gang of Four,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The J.B.'s,
The Walker Brothers,
Eurythmics,
Vainqueur,
Sun City Girls,
Rufus Thomas,
The Black Dice,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Matthew Bourne,
Theoretical Girls, Theoretical Girls, Theoretical Girls, Theoretical Girls.
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.