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 Bulgaria and from Toronto.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 guitar 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 This Heat 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 Kas Product tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joensuu 1685 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bob Dylan,
the Slits,
In Retrospect,
R.M.O.,
Matthew Bourne,
Aswad,
Rhythm & Sound,
John Lydon,
Derrick May,
Brothers Johnson,
This Heat,
Gong,
Archie Shepp,
Amon Düül II,
Skaos,
Spoonie Gee,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Gerry Rafferty,
Fatback Band,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Stiv Bators,
The Angels of Light,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Porter Ricks,
Scion,
The Fugs,
Dual Sessions,
The Mummies,
Jeru the Damaja,
Pylon,
Vainqueur,
The Walker Brothers,
Freddie Wadling,
Ludus,
Pantaleimon,
Hardrive,
Drexciya,
Minutemen,
Black Moon,
Tomorrow,
Lee Hazlewood,
Arcadia,
Sun City Girls,
Jandek,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Oblivians,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Blackbyrds,
Essential Logic,
Jacob Miller,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Sound,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Los Fastidios,
CMW,
The Offenders,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Pole,
Arthur Verocai,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Minny Pops, Minny Pops, Minny Pops, Minny Pops.
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.