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 Tunisia and from Cairo.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Moss Icon to the techno kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks. All the underground hits.
All Crispian St. Peters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Be Bop Deluxe 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 an oboe and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Robert Görl,
Skriet,
Section 25,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Gichy Dan,
Wolf Eyes,
Vladislav Delay,
Siglo XX,
The Young Rascals,
Alton Ellis,
Shoche,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Steve Hackett,
The Stooges,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Slave,
Chrome,
Laurel Aitken,
Hot Snakes,
Rotary Connection,
Glenn Branca,
The Birthday Party,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Move,
Clear Light,
Connie Case,
The Sound,
Newcleus,
Peter and Kerry,
The Gap Band,
Joe Finger,
Oneida,
Procol Harum,
David Bowie,
Surgeon,
Flipper,
Deakin,
Piero Umiliani,
Fela Kuti,
Silicon Teens,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Big Daddy Kane,
Albert Ayler,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Television Personalities,
Nick Fraelich,
Desert Stars,
John Coltrane,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Vogues,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Mantronix,
The Skatalites,
Hashim,
Whodini,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Monochrome Set,
Lungfish,
Royal Trux,
48th St. Collective,
the Germs,
Harpers Bizarre, Harpers Bizarre, Harpers Bizarre, Harpers Bizarre.
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.