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 Uganda and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle show in London.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 theremin 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 Mantronix to the dance 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 U.S. Maple. All the underground hits.
All Main Source tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nick Fraelich 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 theremin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Slits record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Deepchord,
Minutemen,
Pole,
Carl Craig,
Qualms,
John Cale,
The Invisible,
Delta 5,
Tubeway Army,
Don Cherry,
This Heat,
Gerry Rafferty,
Girls At Our Best!,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Camouflage,
Blossom Toes,
Gang Gang Dance,
Morten Harket,
Michelle Simonal,
June Days,
the Human League,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Amon Düül II,
Avey Tare,
Bobby Sherman,
Ice-T,
the Slits,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Gang of Four,
Can,
Ultravox,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Sparks,
Banda Bassotti,
The Residents,
10cc,
Chrome,
Chris Corsano,
The Toasters,
Joe Smooth,
Public Enemy,
Sister Nancy,
Nas,
Swell Maps,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Patti Smith,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Heaven 17,
Panda Bear,
The Offenders,
The Young Rascals,
The Cure,
Essential Logic,
Barrington Levy,
Aural Exciters,
Monks,
Nils Olav,
Dead Boys,
John Coltrane,
Q and Not U,
Agitation Free,
Warsaw,
Groovy Waters, Groovy Waters, Groovy Waters, Groovy Waters.
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.