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 Spain and from Lyon.
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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Arcadia to the funk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Roxy Music. All the underground hits.
All The Litter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Moebius record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Neu! record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pet Shop Boys,
Dual Sessions,
Young Marble Giants,
Unrelated Segments,
Archie Shepp,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Lebanon Hanover,
UT,
Eric Copeland,
Excepter,
Roxy Music,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Cluster,
DJ Sneak,
Goldenarms,
Drive Like Jehu,
Tres Demented,
B.T. Express,
Slick Rick,
David Bowie,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Scion,
Jacques Brel,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Henry Cow,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Niagra,
Nirvana,
Minnie Riperton,
The Raincoats,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Leaves,
Alton Ellis,
Hoover,
Marc Almond,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Zero Boys,
Newcleus,
cv313,
Sparks,
Davy DMX,
Bobby Womack,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Five Americans,
Yaz,
Groovy Waters,
Lungfish,
The United States of America,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Mummies,
The Kinks,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Dead C,
Pagans,
the Bar-Kays,
Todd Terry,
Sonic Youth,
The Gories, The Gories, The Gories, The Gories.
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.