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 Mexico and from Manila.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Cal Tjader to the jazz kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 The Cosmic Jokers. All the underground hits.
All Toni Rubio tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gary Puckett & The Union Gap record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 mellotron and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jesper Dahlback record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Rapeman,
Niagra,
Prince Buster,
Delon & Dalcan,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Kool Moe Dee,
Deadbeat,
Barclay James Harvest,
Surgeon,
Subhumans,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Masters at Work,
Gabor Szabo,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Residents,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Dave Gahan,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Electric Prunes,
Juan Atkins,
The Motions,
The Stooges,
Ice-T,
Michelle Simonal,
Sandy B,
Agent Orange,
The Fire Engines,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Sound Behaviour,
Aaron Thompson,
Electric Prunes,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Bill Near,
Organ,
Harry Pussy,
Jandek,
Tears for Fears,
Outsiders,
D'Angelo,
Barrington Levy,
The Detroit Cobras,
Arthur Verocai,
Talk Talk,
Faust,
Black Flag,
EPMD,
Marcia Griffiths,
Leonard Cohen,
B.T. Express,
R.M.O.,
Second Layer,
Desert Stars,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Funkadelic,
Public Image Ltd.,
Don Cherry,
Amon Düül II,
Ornette Coleman,
MC5,
The Fall,
The Sound,
Drexciya,
The Raincoats, The Raincoats, The Raincoats, The Raincoats.
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.