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 Cape Verde and from Philadelphia.
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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 linndrum 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 It's A Beautiful Day to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu. All the underground hits.
All Connie Case tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Niagra record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gian Franco Pienzio record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Royal Trux,
The Standells,
Big Daddy Kane,
Simply Red,
Erykah Badu,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Happenings,
Warren Ellis,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Tomorrow,
Guru Guru,
Todd Rundgren,
Mad Mike,
The Black Dice,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Scion,
Marc Almond,
The Angels of Light,
DNA,
The Gun Club,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
OOIOO,
Jeff Lynne,
Dennis Brown,
Bobby Byrd,
F. McDonald,
Ronan,
Eli Mardock,
Traffic Nightmare,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
John Lydon,
Girls At Our Best!,
Ronnie Foster,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Lower 48,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Chris Corsano,
Zapp,
John Cale,
Flash Fearless,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Juan Atkins,
Gerry Rafferty,
Eric B and Rakim,
Arab on Radar,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Monochrome Set,
Carl Craig,
Pierre Henry,
Scott Walker,
Joyce Sims,
Todd Terry,
Interpol,
Peter & Gordon,
Can,
The Stooges,
Anthony Braxton,
The Litter,
Kerrie Biddell,
Anakelly, Anakelly, Anakelly, Anakelly.
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.