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 Croatia and from Houston.
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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and New York.
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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Don Cherry to the dance kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Ken Boothe. All the underground hits.
All Al Stewart tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mars record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Swans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Grey Daturas,
The Raincoats,
Technova,
Cecil Taylor,
ABC,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Soul Sonic Force,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Throbbing Gristle,
Icehouse,
Severed Heads,
Davy DMX,
Little Man,
the Bar-Kays,
Royal Trux,
The Martian,
The Busters,
Inner City,
Wire,
X-Ray Spex,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Fall,
Roxette,
Model 500,
Don Cherry,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Motions,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Goldenarms,
Harpers Bizarre,
Quadrant,
Surgeon,
Black Moon,
Erykah Badu,
Hashim,
Anthony Braxton,
L. Decosne,
The Pretty Things,
Sam Rivers,
Thompson Twins,
The Searchers,
Anakelly,
Wally Richardson,
R.M.O.,
Animal Collective,
Minutemen,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Kool Moe Dee,
Howard Jones,
Scion,
Soulsonic Force,
Juan Atkins,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Saints,
H. Thieme,
Ultravox,
Intrusion,
Vainqueur,
Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive.
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.