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 United States and from Lille.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Bush Tetras to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Trumans Water. All the underground hits.
All Nils Olav tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 harpsichord and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Letta Mbulu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kas Product,
Massinfluence,
The Evens,
The Names,
Magma,
Sixth Finger,
Mark Hollis,
Delon & Dalcan,
Anakelly,
Charles Mingus,
Ice-T,
Buzzcocks,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Avey Tare,
World's Most,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Amon Düül,
Cybotron,
Electric Prunes,
H. Thieme,
Grauzone,
Urselle,
Reuben Wilson,
Johnny Clarke,
Porter Ricks,
Jesper Dahlback,
Pagans,
The Smoke,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Qualms,
Intrusion,
John Lydon,
Marc Almond,
The Slits,
Terrestrial Tones,
Derrick Morgan,
Average White Band,
The Seeds,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Pharoah Sanders,
Nico,
Grandmaster Flash,
Newcleus,
48th St. Collective,
June Days,
K-Klass,
The Litter,
Outsiders,
The Trojans,
Idris Muhammad,
Second Layer,
Davy DMX,
Stereo Dub,
Arcadia,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Neu!,
La Düsseldorf,
Loose Ends,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Q and Not U,
Unrelated Segments,
the Association,
Kaleidoscope, Kaleidoscope, Kaleidoscope, Kaleidoscope.
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.