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 Gambia and from Salvador.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Jerry's Kids to the rock kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Freddie Wadling. All the underground hits.
All De La Soul & Jungle Brothers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Black Pus record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
James White and The Blacks,
Quadrant,
The Star Department,
Todd Rundgren,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Tears for Fears,
Nas,
Johnny Osbourne,
Skarface,
Johnny Clarke,
LL Cool J,
Index,
X-101,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Freddie Wadling,
The Dirtbombs,
Absolute Body Control,
The Last Poets,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Soft Cell,
Whodini,
The Flesh Eaters,
Parry Music,
Sugar Minott,
Archie Shepp,
The Misunderstood,
The Tremeloes,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Radiopuhelimet,
Roy Ayers,
The Human League,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Piero Umiliani,
Fugazi,
Skriet,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Cymande,
The Smoke,
Sixth Finger,
Intrusion,
Ohio Players,
Model 500,
Fluxion,
Theoretical Girls,
Tim Buckley,
Lalann,
Gil Scott Heron,
Henry Cow,
Talk Talk,
Fad Gadget,
8 Eyed Spy,
Glambeats Corp.,
Sun Ra,
John Lydon,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Kinks,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Barry Ungar,
The Gun Club,
Gabor Szabo,
Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance.
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.