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 Hungary and from Toronto.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Q65 to the funk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic. All the underground hits.
All Silicon Teens tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jawbox record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Metal Thangz,
Brass Construction,
Eddi Front,
Hashim,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Intrusion,
Slick Rick,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Reagan Youth,
Pylon,
Mantronix,
Kenny Larkin,
James White and The Blacks,
Archie Shepp,
Absolute Body Control,
Pantytec,
Excepter,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Kool Moe Dee,
Nick Fraelich,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Martian,
Deakin,
Ultimate Spinach,
The United States of America,
Sugar Minott,
Kas Product,
The Cure,
PIL,
Pet Shop Boys,
Lyres,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Saints,
Das Ding,
John Lydon,
Soft Machine,
Nico,
Loose Ends,
Fatback Band,
Dennis Brown,
the Slits,
The Invisible,
Dawn Penn,
Con Funk Shun,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Tropical Tobacco,
Bang On A Can,
Connie Case,
Index,
The Neon Judgement,
Quando Quango,
Tommy Roe,
Eli Mardock,
X-Ray Spex,
the Swans,
Robert Hood,
Model 500,
Lindisfarne,
The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set.
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.