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 Mongolia and from Jakarta.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Danielle Patucci 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 Talk Talk. All the underground hits.
All Q65 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Erasure 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Liliput record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Velvet Underground,
Organ,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Groovy Waters,
Mandrill,
JFA,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Nick Fraelich,
Kerri Chandler,
The Mummies,
John Coltrane,
The Zeros,
Iggy Pop,
Bad Manners,
Byron Stingily,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Ornette Coleman,
Ossler,
The Busters,
Accadde A,
Adolescents,
The Raincoats,
Patti Smith,
Joensuu 1685,
Roxy Music,
Matthew Bourne,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Surgeon,
Johnny Clarke,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Fortunes,
Model 500,
New York Dolls,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Josef K,
Stereo Dub,
Tears for Fears,
Lindisfarne,
Nik Kershaw,
Al Stewart,
The Residents,
The Remains,
Ice-T,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Bluetip,
Television,
Vladislav Delay,
Faraquet,
Rufus Thomas,
Supertramp,
Piero Umiliani,
Lightning Bolt,
Basic Channel,
the Sonics,
Deepchord,
New Order,
Echospace,
Eve St. Jones,
Fluxion,
Albert Ayler,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson.
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.