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 Monaco and from New York.
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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Heavy D & The Boyz to the crunk 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 Average White Band. All the underground hits.
All Cymande tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Arthur Verocai record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Angels of Light & Akron/Family record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The American Breed,
The Fall,
Jacques Brel,
The Trojans,
Marmalade,
Derrick May,
Monks,
The Durutti Column,
China Crisis,
Ituana,
Boogie Down Productions,
Johnny Clarke,
Black Moon,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Barbara Tucker,
The Victims,
Bluetip,
PIL,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Moss Icon,
Arcadia,
the Normal,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Rapeman,
Brick,
Gil Scott Heron,
Quantec,
The Cowsills,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
X-Ray Spex,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Scan 7,
Alice Coltrane,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Seeds,
Vainqueur,
Chris & Cosey,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Toni Rubio,
MDC,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Chrome,
The Zeros,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Five Americans,
Mantronix,
Adolescents,
Fluxion,
The Monochrome Set,
Soft Cell,
Donald Byrd,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Sound,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Birthday Party,
Scientists,
The Toasters,
Hardrive,
New York Dolls, New York Dolls, New York Dolls, New York Dolls.
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.