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 Belarus and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 snare 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 It's A Beautiful Day to the crunk 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 Wire. All the underground hits.
All Reagan Youth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bad Manners record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 theremin and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Sisters of Mercy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Reuben Wilson,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Marvin Gaye,
The Modern Lovers,
Altered Images,
T. Rex,
David McCallum,
Iggy Pop,
DJ Style,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Minutemen,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Invisible,
a-ha,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Moody Blues,
Bad Manners,
Sonic Youth,
Lou Christie,
One Last Wish,
Minny Pops,
The Blackbyrds,
Qualms,
Animal Collective,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Fall,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Josef K,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Moebius,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Leaves,
Ten City,
The Raincoats,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Severed Heads,
Rites of Spring,
Accadde A,
the Fania All-Stars,
Duran Duran,
Mary Jane Girls,
Juan Atkins,
Subhumans,
Scratch Acid,
JFA,
Howard Jones,
Angry Samoans,
Public Enemy,
Girls At Our Best!,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Pop Group,
Average White Band,
Motorama,
DJ Sneak,
Sun City Girls,
R.M.O.,
David Axelrod,
Magma,
Swell Maps, Swell Maps, Swell Maps, Swell Maps.
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.