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 Macedonia and from Houston.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 spring reverb 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 Leonard Cohen to the rock kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Sandy B. All the underground hits.
All DeepChord presents Echospace tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dawn Penn record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Metal Thangz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Blues Magoos,
Aswad,
Talk Talk,
Isaac Hayes,
Hot Snakes,
John Foxx,
Soft Machine,
Glambeats Corp.,
Altered Images,
Black Bananas,
Au Pairs,
Vladislav Delay,
Dennis Brown,
Circle Jerks,
Nico,
Hoover,
Todd Rundgren,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Eli Mardock,
Brass Construction,
Jeff Mills,
The Modern Lovers,
The Beau Brummels,
Carl Craig,
Mad Mike,
Magazine,
Josef K,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Durutti Column,
Urselle,
Tomorrow,
Franke,
Rod Modell,
Joe Finger,
Neil Young,
ABBA,
The Invisible,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Busters,
Idris Muhammad,
Marmalade,
Gichy Dan,
PIL,
the Bar-Kays,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Fuzztones,
T.S.O.L.,
Roy Ayers,
Bizarre Inc.,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Laurel Aitken,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Saints,
Bobby Womack,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Anakelly,
T. Rex,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Grey Daturas,
Monolake,
The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set.
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.