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 Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 Donald Fagen 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 Bronski Beat 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 Bootsy's Rubber Band. All the underground hits.
All Bluetip tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Essential Logic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Funkadelic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Amon Düül II,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Arab on Radar,
The Cure,
Drive Like Jehu,
Rapeman,
The Smoke,
Japan,
Scrapy,
Chris Corsano,
The Dave Clark Five,
Johnny Clarke,
Althea and Donna,
Michelle Simonal,
Livin' Joy,
Delon & Dalcan,
In Retrospect,
Harmonia,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Aswad,
The Tremeloes,
Sound Behaviour,
The Stooges,
Glambeats Corp.,
Yaz,
Alphaville,
Aloha Tigers,
Kerri Chandler,
The Misunderstood,
Television,
Blake Baxter,
Thee Headcoats,
Jimmy McGriff,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Connie Case,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Kinks,
Sex Pistols,
The Sound,
Nico,
Rekid,
Reuben Wilson,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Joensuu 1685,
Prince Buster,
Dorothy Ashby,
Scott Walker,
Gang Green,
Throbbing Gristle,
DNA,
Pantaleimon,
The Alarm Clocks,
Ultra Naté,
E-Dancer,
Joyce Sims,
Sexual Harrassment,
Jandek,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Sonics,
Bronski Beat,
Steve Hackett,
Jerry Gold Smith,
New Order,
Deakin,
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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.