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 Saudi Arabia and from Manila.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Sun City Girls to the dance kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Electric Prunes. All the underground hits.
All Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Los Fastidios 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lizzy Mercier Descloux record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tropical Tobacco,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Eric Copeland,
Negative Approach,
Roxette,
Funky Four + One,
Leonard Cohen,
Gerry Rafferty,
Magazine,
Pet Shop Boys,
Pierre Henry,
Tubeway Army,
La Düsseldorf,
The Mojo Men,
Isaac Hayes,
Aloha Tigers,
Marc Almond,
Soul Sonic Force,
X-101,
The Sonics,
The Five Americans,
Groovy Waters,
Lebanon Hanover,
Cheater Slicks,
Flash Fearless,
the Sonics,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Rakim,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Ken Boothe,
Interpol,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Swell Maps,
Bizarre Inc.,
Gichy Dan,
Masters at Work,
Wally Richardson,
Lindisfarne,
Moebius,
Magma,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Malaria!,
Yaz,
Television Personalities,
Ten City,
The Real Kids,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Harry Pussy,
Skarface,
Kevin Saunderson,
Soulsonic Force,
Unwound,
Ituana,
B.T. Express,
Peter & Gordon,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Fall,
The Blues Magoos,
Lou Christie,
Gang Starr,
Camberwell Now,
E-Dancer,
Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions.
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.