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 Japan and from Portland.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 marimba 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 Essential Logic to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Gang of Four. All the underground hits.
All Fad Gadget tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Crooked Eye record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 harpsichord and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Average White Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eve St. Jones,
the Normal,
Connie Case,
Circle Jerks,
June of 44,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Wake,
AZ,
Depeche Mode,
The Smiths,
Animal Collective,
Anakelly,
The Doors,
Patti Smith,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Lucky Dragons,
Flash Fearless,
The Smoke,
Hardrive,
Vladislav Delay,
the Soft Cell,
Morten Harket,
LL Cool J,
Kenny Larkin,
Letta Mbulu,
Drexciya,
Quadrant,
John Cale,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Matthew Halsall,
Flipper,
Mary Jane Girls,
a-ha,
Jawbox,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Brick,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
New York Dolls,
Gil Scott Heron,
Desert Stars,
Gabor Szabo,
Kevin Saunderson,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Searchers,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Roy Ayers,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Quantec,
Visage,
Carl Craig,
Cameo,
John Holt,
Leonard Cohen,
Skarface,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Rites of Spring,
Joensuu 1685,
Cecil Taylor,
Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force.
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.