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 Colombia and from Manchester.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Beijing.
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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 disco kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 In Retrospect. All the underground hits.
All Bush Tetras tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cheater Slicks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 sitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sarah Menescal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Smiths,
Warren Ellis,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Velvet Underground,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Smoke,
Massinfluence,
Anakelly,
B.T. Express,
The Invisible,
Fatback Band,
10cc,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Marcia Griffiths,
Icehouse,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Johnny Clarke,
Henry Cow,
Outsiders,
The Barracudas,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Blossom Toes,
Grandmaster Flash,
Au Pairs,
The Mummies,
John Lydon,
Laurel Aitken,
Cluster,
Junior Murvin,
Index,
Fugazi,
Inner City,
Jeff Mills,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Tres Demented,
Warsaw,
The Red Krayola,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Sarah Menescal,
KRS-One,
Marine Girls,
Sex Pistols,
Yusef Lateef,
Cameo,
Deakin,
Little Man,
Barbara Tucker,
Delta 5,
Dennis Brown,
Aloha Tigers,
Ralphi Rosario,
Deepchord,
Slick Rick,
Whodini,
The Blues Magoos,
The Victims,
Lalann,
Sight & Sound,
Tropical Tobacco,
Rhythm & Sound,
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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.