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 Thailand and from Tehran.
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 1963 to 1972.
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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Scratch Acid to the jazz kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Magazine. All the underground hits.
All Susan Cadogan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dark Day 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Youth Brigade 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?
Blossom Toes,
Dawn Penn,
Deakin,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Johnny Osbourne,
Pet Shop Boys,
Amazonics,
The Count Five,
Eurythmics,
Model 500,
The Cramps,
Soft Cell,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Marmalade,
Groovy Waters,
A Certain Ratio,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
the Germs,
Gang Gang Dance,
the Association,
Icehouse,
UT,
The Stooges,
Fluxion,
The Fugs,
Judy Mowatt,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
B.T. Express,
Throbbing Gristle,
Grey Daturas,
Brand Nubian,
The Standells,
John Coltrane,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Boz Scaggs,
Slick Rick,
Joe Finger,
Bronski Beat,
Niagra,
Au Pairs,
T.S.O.L.,
The Move,
Basic Channel,
Con Funk Shun,
Arcadia,
Reagan Youth,
Animal Collective,
The Electric Prunes,
Tom Boy,
Urselle,
The Pretty Things,
Dark Day,
The Associates,
Neu!,
R.M.O.,
Stetsasonic,
Supertramp,
Visage,
Suburban Knight,
The Residents,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
JFA, JFA, JFA, JFA.
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.