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 Ukraine and from Lille.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Leonard Cohen to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Man Parrish. All the underground hits.
All This Heat tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Spoonie Gee record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roger Hodgson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Mojo Men,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Bobby Byrd,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
DJ Style,
Scrapy,
Archie Shepp,
The Standells,
Frankie Knuckles,
Lee Hazlewood,
KRS-One,
Neu!,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Star Department,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Erykah Badu,
Stiv Bators,
Hashim,
Swans,
Warren Ellis,
Andrew Hill,
Bootsy Collins,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Hoover,
Depeche Mode,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Boredoms,
Mars,
The Red Krayola,
Barclay James Harvest,
Soulsonic Force,
Au Pairs,
Radio Birdman,
Gang Starr,
Massinfluence,
Tres Demented,
Royal Trux,
Stetsasonic,
the Normal,
Public Enemy,
Ice-T,
Average White Band,
Shuggie Otis,
Country Teasers,
Josef K,
Brothers Johnson,
FM Einheit,
Avey Tare,
The Fall,
Animal Collective,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Birthday Party,
Maurizio,
Albert Ayler,
Flash Fearless,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Roger Hodgson,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Altered Images,
The Fuzztones, The Fuzztones, The Fuzztones, The Fuzztones.
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.