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 Palau and from Taipei.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Echospace to the dance 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 Gang Gang Dance. All the underground hits.
All Dave Gahan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Quantec 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nirvana record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Searchers,
Neil Young,
Massinfluence,
The Mojo Men,
Hoover,
Blancmange,
Reuben Wilson,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
the Sonics,
Eli Mardock,
Aural Exciters,
Clear Light,
Stetsasonic,
Judy Mowatt,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Rites of Spring,
Crispy Ambulance,
Swans,
DNA,
These Immortal Souls,
Dawn Penn,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Pretty Things,
Jesper Dahlback,
Agitation Free,
Nick Fraelich,
Procol Harum,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Real Kids,
Thompson Twins,
Easy Going,
Alice Coltrane,
Depeche Mode,
Section 25,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Fuzztones,
Big Daddy Kane,
Symarip,
JFA,
Peter & Gordon,
La Düsseldorf,
Marine Girls,
Main Source,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Boogie Down Productions,
Nils Olav,
Tom Boy,
LL Cool J,
Bang On A Can,
Yaz,
Howard Jones,
Whodini,
Liliput,
Black Bananas,
Todd Terry,
Stockholm Monsters,
Marcia Griffiths,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Darondo,
The Stooges,
Essential Logic,
The Busters, The Busters, The Busters, The Busters.
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.