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 Ethiopia and from Mexico City.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Fear to the disco 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 U.S. Maple. All the underground hits.
All The Evens tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cabaret Voltaire record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Echospace record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Grauzone,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Suicide,
Matthew Halsall,
Technova,
K-Klass,
Suburban Knight,
Newcleus,
the Fania All-Stars,
Don Cherry,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Bizarre Inc.,
Skriet,
Pole,
Fad Gadget,
Graham Central Station,
Todd Rundgren,
Minor Threat,
The Smiths,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Black Flag,
Amazonics,
Vainqueur,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Wake,
Sarah Menescal,
X-102,
Blake Baxter,
The Stooges,
Wasted Youth,
Marshall Jefferson,
Charles Mingus,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Glenn Branca,
The Angels of Light,
Stetsasonic,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Andrew Hill,
Q and Not U,
Peter & Gordon,
Circle Jerks,
Eli Mardock,
Archie Shepp,
Trumans Water,
Section 25,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Selecter,
The Star Department,
Crispian St. Peters,
Jandek,
Lindisfarne,
D'Angelo,
Soulsonic Force,
Bang On A Can,
Warsaw,
Ice-T,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Eve St. Jones,
Lou Reed,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Derrick May,
Rosa Yemen, Rosa Yemen, Rosa Yemen, Rosa Yemen.
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.