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 United States and from Shanghai.
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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Houston.
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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 X-101 to the dance 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 Don Cherry. All the underground hits.
All Barbara Tucker tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Derrick Morgan 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Davy DMX 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?
New Order,
The Knickerbockers,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Reagan Youth,
Kenny Larkin,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Royal Trux,
The Sound,
Alton Ellis,
Deadbeat,
The Slits,
Jerry's Kids,
Babytalk,
The Zeros,
Soulsonic Force,
The United States of America,
L. Decosne,
The Monochrome Set,
Lyres,
Black Bananas,
Banda Bassotti,
Curtis Mayfield,
Public Image Ltd.,
Darondo,
Schoolly D,
Rotary Connection,
A Certain Ratio,
Skriet,
One Last Wish,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Underground Resistance,
Hashim,
KRS-One,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Pussy Galore,
The Five Americans,
Marcia Griffiths,
Al Stewart,
Radio Birdman,
Laurel Aitken,
Black Sheep,
Scion,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Don Cherry,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Alice Coltrane,
Hot Snakes,
Siglo XX,
Jeru the Damaja,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Mary Jane Girls,
Joensuu 1685,
Pierre Henry,
Metal Thangz,
E-Dancer,
Sam Rivers,
T.S.O.L.,
Aloha Tigers,
Lindisfarne,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
AZ,
Alison Limerick,
Wolf Eyes, Wolf Eyes, Wolf Eyes, Wolf Eyes.
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.