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 Jordan and from Johannesburg.
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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 Donald Fagen 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 Lonnie Liston Smith to the funk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Ten City. All the underground hits.
All Technova tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Easy Going record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Zero Boys record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Fugs,
Nick Fraelich,
Kerri Chandler,
The Golliwogs,
Model 500,
Jeff Mills,
Silicon Teens,
Quadrant,
Rosa Yemen,
Section 25,
The Zeros,
Dual Sessions,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Duran Duran,
the Association,
The Litter,
the Soft Cell,
Anthony Braxton,
Unwound,
The Moleskins,
Throbbing Gristle,
Gang of Four,
John Lydon,
Sugar Minott,
Boredoms,
Harpers Bizarre,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Surgeon,
Guru Guru,
These Immortal Souls,
Boz Scaggs,
New Order,
Black Moon,
The Velvet Underground,
The Searchers,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Dirtbombs,
Zapp,
The Black Dice,
Althea and Donna,
Anakelly,
Absolute Body Control,
Ronnie Foster,
Eddi Front,
Porter Ricks,
Slave,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Aloha Tigers,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Khruangbin,
Agent Orange,
Donny Hathaway,
Arab on Radar,
Kas Product,
Dead Boys,
Swell Maps,
Organ,
Minor Threat,
Unrelated Segments,
Wings,
Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy's Rubber Band.
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.