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 United Kingdom and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Zeros to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Erykah Badu. All the underground hits.
All Tommy Roe tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tears for Fears record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Al Stewart,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Mr. Review,
Dave Gahan,
Sound Behaviour,
Judy Mowatt,
Negative Approach,
Chris Corsano,
Brand Nubian,
Country Teasers,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Flipper,
The Index,
Marine Girls,
Sonny Sharrock,
Carl Craig,
Nas,
Can,
Brick,
Schoolly D,
Basic Channel,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Maurizio,
The Moody Blues,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Marc Almond,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
the Germs,
The Alarm Clocks,
Motorama,
Godley & Creme,
Stiv Bators,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Durutti Column,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Ponytail,
Lalo Schifrin,
Wings,
The Young Rascals,
The Tremeloes,
Newcleus,
Ohio Players,
Kerri Chandler,
Surgeon,
The Gories,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Unwound,
Heaven 17,
The Pretty Things,
T.S.O.L.,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Detroit Cobras,
Vainqueur,
PIL,
Los Fastidios,
The Dave Clark Five,
Mission of Burma,
Reuben Wilson,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
the Human League,
Pantaleimon,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.