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 Armenia and from Stockholm.
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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Scott Walker to the punk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 De La Soul & Jungle Brothers. All the underground hits.
All Kango’s Stein Massive tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every De La Soul & Jungle Brothers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Country Joe & The Fish record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Reagan Youth,
E-Dancer,
The Monks,
Pylon,
The Real Kids,
Marine Girls,
Todd Terry,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Be Bop Deluxe,
In Retrospect,
Tubeway Army,
Radio Birdman,
Model 500,
Bobby Byrd,
Inner City,
Peter & Gordon,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Delta 5,
Jeff Lynne,
Drexciya,
Circle Jerks,
Fugazi,
Maurizio,
David Bowie,
The Knickerbockers,
48th St. Collective,
Blake Baxter,
Interpol,
Ultimate Spinach,
Fat Boys,
Harry Pussy,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Invisible,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Doobie Brothers,
Lungfish,
Crispian St. Peters,
Public Image Ltd.,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Bobby Sherman,
Gabor Szabo,
Q and Not U,
the Sonics,
Bronski Beat,
Bob Dylan,
Supertramp,
Todd Rundgren,
New Age Steppers,
John Foxx,
Rod Modell,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Matthew Halsall,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Rapeman,
Faraquet,
Groovy Waters,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Average White Band,
Dark Day,
Infiniti,
Youth Brigade,
The Cramps,
The Raincoats,
Scott Walker, Scott Walker, Scott Walker, Scott Walker.
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.