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 Grenada and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Ultimate Spinach to the dance 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 Gregory Isaacs. All the underground hits.
All It's A Beautiful Day tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 spring reverb and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Fall record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
New Age Steppers,
Index,
Slave,
Kaleidoscope,
Brass Construction,
Peter & Gordon,
Ossler,
Hashim,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Invisible,
Skaos,
Eric B and Rakim,
Gang of Four,
a-ha,
Althea and Donna,
Faraquet,
Matthew Halsall,
Scan 7,
Toni Rubio,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Gories,
Erykah Badu,
Pussy Galore,
Audionom,
Kas Product,
June Days,
Agent Orange,
Fluxion,
Jacob Miller,
Make Up,
Average White Band,
Excepter,
The Slits,
Marvin Gaye,
Negative Approach,
Soulsonic Force,
Alison Limerick,
Wasted Youth,
The Blues Magoos,
The Black Dice,
Tres Demented,
Grandmaster Flash,
Boredoms,
Radiohead,
Jeff Mills,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Slick Rick,
Rites of Spring,
Motorama,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Crash Course in Science,
Bob Dylan,
Swans,
Aaron Thompson,
The Skatalites,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Robert Görl,
David Axelrod,
Joy Division,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy, The Peanut Butter Conspiracy, The Peanut Butter Conspiracy, The Peanut Butter Conspiracy.
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.