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 Liberia and from Jakarta.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Bronski Beat to the disco 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 Quadrant. All the underground hits.
All Rakim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every B.T. Express 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soul II Soul record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Maurizio,
Scrapy,
Byron Stingily,
Bobby Byrd,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Young Rascals,
Amazonics,
The Sound,
Bronski Beat,
Scott Walker,
Eric Copeland,
Pagans,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Basic Channel,
Brick,
Thee Headcoats,
Neil Young,
Los Fastidios,
Supertramp,
Aural Exciters,
Kerri Chandler,
the Fania All-Stars,
Yazoo,
Rufus Thomas,
OOIOO,
Essential Logic,
Terry Callier,
Ronan,
Eurythmics,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Buckinghams,
Kevin Saunderson,
The American Breed,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
K-Klass,
Ultimate Spinach,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Main Source,
Average White Band,
Johnny Clarke,
Sam Rivers,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Rotary Connection,
Guru Guru,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Cymande,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Funky Four + One,
the Soft Cell,
the Human League,
The Fall,
Marmalade,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
DNA,
Skriet,
Newcleus,
Index,
The Associates,
Davy DMX,
Agitation Free,
Subhumans,
Leonard Cohen,
Circle Jerks, Circle Jerks, Circle Jerks, Circle Jerks.
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.