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 Brazil and from Salvador.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Loose Ends to the rock 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 Joey Negro. All the underground hits.
All Al Stewart tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rosa Yemen record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Crooked Eye record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Chrome,
Unrelated Segments,
Quantec,
Arcadia,
Gong,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Black Dice,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
One Last Wish,
The Neon Judgement,
Desert Stars,
Marmalade,
Swell Maps,
The Knickerbockers,
Gregory Isaacs,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Pylon,
Amon Düül,
K-Klass,
Lower 48,
Porter Ricks,
Tom Boy,
cv313,
The Fortunes,
Groovy Waters,
Mad Mike,
Amazonics,
Funky Four + One,
T.S.O.L.,
The Five Americans,
Delon & Dalcan,
Absolute Body Control,
UT,
Con Funk Shun,
Cluster,
The Techniques,
Eli Mardock,
T. Rex,
Frankie Knuckles,
Sonic Youth,
The J.B.'s,
Brothers Johnson,
The Fugs,
Maleditus Sound,
Unwound,
A Certain Ratio,
the Human League,
FM Einheit,
Panda Bear,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Aural Exciters,
The Selecter,
The Golliwogs,
Susan Cadogan,
Bronski Beat,
Neil Young,
Quando Quango,
Cal Tjader,
The Trojans,
Simply Red,
Faraquet,
Pierre Henry, Pierre Henry, Pierre Henry, Pierre Henry.
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.