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 Gabon and from Delhi.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Juan Atkins 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 Panda Bear. All the underground hits.
All Flamin' Groovies tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rotary Connection record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 snare and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Normal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Oneida,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Warsaw,
Lindisfarne,
Neu!,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Leonard Cohen,
Scrapy,
Pet Shop Boys,
Bluetip,
Minor Threat,
B.T. Express,
The Seeds,
Depeche Mode,
Pere Ubu,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Black Moon,
The Red Krayola,
The Smoke,
The Fuzztones,
Wolf Eyes,
Funky Four + One,
The Music Machine,
Rhythm & Sound,
Ultra Naté,
Don Cherry,
Suicide,
Sonny Sharrock,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Nik Kershaw,
Quantec,
Anakelly,
Sister Nancy,
Wire,
Groovy Waters,
Electric Light Orchestra,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Buzzcocks,
Television Personalities,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Associates,
Eve St. Jones,
Cymande,
New Order,
The Divine Comedy,
Urselle,
Sixth Finger,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Tubeway Army,
Patti Smith,
Aural Exciters,
Camberwell Now,
Carl Craig,
D'Angelo,
Sällskapet,
Althea and Donna,
Erykah Badu,
Agitation Free,
Radiopuhelimet,
Wally Richardson,
Zapp, Zapp, Zapp, Zapp.
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.