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 Bosnia Herzegovina and from Jakarta.
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 Tokyo and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 The Dave Clark Five to the electroclash 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 Evens. All the underground hits.
All These Immortal Souls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pierre Henry 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Teenage Jesus and the Jerks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Donny Hathaway,
Clear Light,
Amon Düül,
Cameo,
Cal Tjader,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
the Association,
The Buckinghams,
Laurel Aitken,
Ralphi Rosario,
Zapp,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Animal Collective,
The Blues Magoos,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Sixth Finger,
Bush Tetras,
Ituana,
Wasted Youth,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Q and Not U,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Scientists,
Mad Mike,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Rufus Thomas,
Altered Images,
Section 25,
Throbbing Gristle,
Hot Snakes,
Soft Cell,
The Shadows of Knight,
Frankie Knuckles,
Quando Quango,
Mantronix,
Fear,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Cheater Slicks,
Organ,
Ronnie Foster,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Reagan Youth,
Neil Young,
Kaleidoscope,
10cc,
The Red Krayola,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Blancmange,
The Doors,
Rakim,
Nas,
Eddi Front,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Gang Green,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Alice Coltrane,
The Busters,
Pet Shop Boys,
Gichy Dan,
Joe Finger,
Swell Maps, Swell Maps, Swell Maps, Swell Maps.
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.