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 Chad and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the sitar 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 Crime to the rap kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Jacques Brel. All the underground hits.
All Kool Moe Dee tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Terrestrial Tones record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bronski Beat record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dave Gahan,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Rosa Yemen,
Barclay James Harvest,
Heaven 17,
Gang Green,
Brothers Johnson,
Crooked Eye,
Scientists,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Skriet,
Junior Murvin,
Jeff Mills,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Music Machine,
The Stooges,
Easy Going,
The Golliwogs,
Joey Negro,
Nico,
Skaos,
Schoolly D,
Sister Nancy,
Susan Cadogan,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Urselle,
Robert Görl,
Kas Product,
LL Cool J,
Sparks,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The New Christs,
Avey Tare,
Absolute Body Control,
Goldenarms,
Byron Stingily,
Eric Dolphy,
The Misunderstood,
Pulsallama,
Kaleidoscope,
Mandrill,
Slave,
The Alarm Clocks,
Kerri Chandler,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Livin' Joy,
Liliput,
Sixth Finger,
Can,
Tim Buckley,
Trumans Water,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Angels of Light,
Hasil Adkins,
Soul Sonic Force,
Animal Collective,
Marmalade,
Banda Bassotti,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Sonics,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band.
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.