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 Cape Verde and from Salvador.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Nik Kershaw to the punk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Television Personalities. All the underground hits.
All DeepChord presents Echospace tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Doors 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soulsonic Force record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Pretty Things,
The Dead C,
Simply Red,
Ken Boothe,
Gerry Rafferty,
Intrusion,
The Modern Lovers,
Colin Newman,
Can,
Skaos,
Sarah Menescal,
Prince Buster,
La Düsseldorf,
Sun Ra,
Pantaleimon,
Dark Day,
The Golliwogs,
Jeru the Damaja,
Niagra,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
JFA,
Terry Callier,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Bluetip,
Deakin,
Ultravox,
Marvin Gaye,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Faraquet,
Fad Gadget,
The Moody Blues,
Delon & Dalcan,
Rites of Spring,
Soul Sonic Force,
Fela Kuti,
One Last Wish,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Metal Thangz,
Kurtis Blow,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Desert Stars,
Q and Not U,
Von Mondo,
Aswad,
Althea and Donna,
Davy DMX,
Janne Schatter,
Archie Shepp,
X-102,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Eric Copeland,
Delta 5,
Maleditus Sound,
Black Bananas,
the Soft Cell,
Harpers Bizarre,
Terrestrial Tones,
Thee Headcoats,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Skriet,
Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd..
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.