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 Albania and from Madrid.
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 1968 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Milan.
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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Ken Boothe to the funk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Warsaw. All the underground hits.
All The Seeds tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Absolute Body Control 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Sound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ponytail,
Clear Light,
the Soft Cell,
The Modern Lovers,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Real Kids,
Simply Red,
Fat Boys,
Grauzone,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Kurtis Blow,
KRS-One,
The Fuzztones,
June of 44,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Fort Wilson Riot,
B.T. Express,
Agent Orange,
Essential Logic,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Grey Daturas,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Sound,
Section 25,
Archie Shepp,
CMW,
Soulsonic Force,
Robert Görl,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Dead Boys,
Alison Limerick,
Graham Central Station,
Von Mondo,
L. Decosne,
The Knickerbockers,
the Swans,
Deakin,
Au Pairs,
Aaron Thompson,
The Skatalites,
Heaven 17,
Arab on Radar,
Dennis Brown,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Stereo Dub,
Japan,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
EPMD,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Ultra Naté,
The Litter,
Marmalade,
Pagans,
Letta Mbulu,
The Sonics,
Procol Harum,
The Human League,
Albert Ayler,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Fire Engines, The Fire Engines, The Fire Engines, The Fire Engines.
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.