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 China and from Houston.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the rhodes 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 The Human League to the grime 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 The Walker Brothers. All the underground hits.
All Dawn Penn tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Don Cherry 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soft Cell record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Index,
Young Marble Giants,
Stiv Bators,
T.S.O.L.,
Junior Murvin,
Duran Duran,
Ponytail,
Johnny Osbourne,
Jandek,
Heaven 17,
MDC,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Judy Mowatt,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Banda Bassotti,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Outsiders,
The Invisible,
Easy Going,
Drive Like Jehu,
Blancmange,
Piero Umiliani,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
the Association,
Funkadelic,
Bootsy Collins,
Brass Construction,
Aural Exciters,
Negative Approach,
Crash Course in Science,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Matthew Halsall,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Sparks,
Scratch Acid,
Brothers Johnson,
The Pretty Things,
Lower 48,
Tomorrow,
Frankie Knuckles,
Flash Fearless,
Cal Tjader,
Country Teasers,
Scrapy,
Nick Fraelich,
Camouflage,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
H. Thieme,
Soul II Soul,
Andrew Hill,
The Vogues,
The Saints,
Buzzcocks,
The Motions,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Velvet Underground,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Morten Harket,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family.
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.