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 Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 Taipei and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1983 at the first Bronski Beat practice in a loft in Brixton.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Ituana to the punk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Joy Division. All the underground hits.
All Rhythm & Sound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dennis Brown 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Godley & Creme record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sound Behaviour,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Glenn Branca,
New Order,
MC5,
The Happenings,
Gang Gang Dance,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Groovy Waters,
Deakin,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Names,
The Neon Judgement,
John Holt,
Quadrant,
Bob Dylan,
Tubeway Army,
Surgeon,
The Moleskins,
Arab on Radar,
Minor Threat,
Lindisfarne,
Ten City,
Unwound,
Vladislav Delay,
Yaz,
Roger Hodgson,
New Age Steppers,
Mandrill,
The Blackbyrds,
Bill Wells,
Underground Resistance,
Skriet,
Dennis Brown,
Pierre Henry,
Minutemen,
Lalann,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Misunderstood,
Andrew Hill,
Iggy Pop,
Letta Mbulu,
Saccharine Trust,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Crooked Eye,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Swans,
Monolake,
The Wake,
Fatback Band,
Eric Copeland,
Neu!,
The Dirtbombs,
David Bowie,
Marvin Gaye,
Lou Christie, Lou Christie, Lou Christie, Lou Christie.
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.