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 Senegal and from Madrid.
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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 synthesizer 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 Tom Boy to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Brick. All the underground hits.
All Erykah Badu tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lou Reed 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Desert Stars record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Boz Scaggs,
Pulsallama,
The Gladiators,
Stiv Bators,
MC5,
Todd Terry,
The Five Americans,
Robert Hood,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Amon Düül II,
Cybotron,
ABC,
The Knickerbockers,
The Move,
Altered Images,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
DJ Style,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Barrington Levy,
Thompson Twins,
The Motions,
the Swans,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Chris & Cosey,
Agitation Free,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Kerri Chandler,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Negative Approach,
Von Mondo,
Frankie Knuckles,
Guru Guru,
Essential Logic,
the Germs,
The Black Dice,
Simply Red,
Reagan Youth,
Tropical Tobacco,
Bootsy Collins,
Glambeats Corp.,
Connie Case,
Pere Ubu,
Monks,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Mantronix,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Sound,
Danielle Patucci,
Moebius,
Radiohead,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Charles Mingus,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Pretty Things,
A Certain Ratio,
China Crisis,
Roger Hodgson,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Isaac Hayes,
Lindisfarne,
Mission of Burma,
Eyeless In Gaza, Eyeless In Gaza, Eyeless In Gaza, Eyeless In Gaza.
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.