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 Tuvalu and from Delhi.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 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 Scott Walker to the rock 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 Heaven 17. All the underground hits.
All Radiopuhelimet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bauhaus record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cybotron record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Infiniti,
The Martian,
Groovy Waters,
Donald Byrd,
Delta 5,
Buzzcocks,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Rhythm & Sound,
Gregory Isaacs,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Man Parrish,
Warsaw,
Roy Ayers,
Peter and Kerry,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Barracudas,
The Black Dice,
Idris Muhammad,
Lyres,
Mantronix,
Babytalk,
The Names,
Stiv Bators,
Section 25,
the Germs,
Black Flag,
Connie Case,
Joe Finger,
Adolescents,
Mo-Dettes,
Flash Fearless,
Sonny Sharrock,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Television,
R.M.O.,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Buckinghams,
DJ Sneak,
Cybotron,
Brand Nubian,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Soul II Soul,
Lou Christie,
Second Layer,
Inner City,
The American Breed,
The Cowsills,
Bobby Byrd,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Move,
Radio Birdman,
Au Pairs,
The Monochrome Set,
Barry Ungar,
Excepter,
La Düsseldorf,
Brick,
Dead Boys,
Metal Thangz,
Quantec,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Jimmy McGriff,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Five Americans, The Five Americans, The Five Americans, The Five Americans.
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.