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 Nepal and from Manchester.
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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Section 25 to the electroclash kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Black Sheep. All the underground hits.
All Quando Quango tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hardrive 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a CMW record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Deakin,
Marmalade,
Minny Pops,
X-102,
The Offenders,
Arab on Radar,
Sarah Menescal,
David Bowie,
Deepchord,
Sällskapet,
Gerry Rafferty,
Scott Walker,
Scrapy,
The Gories,
The Smiths,
Brass Construction,
Howard Jones,
Boz Scaggs,
Sight & Sound,
Young Marble Giants,
Soul Sonic Force,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Barracudas,
Kas Product,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Toni Rubio,
The Beau Brummels,
Erasure,
Maleditus Sound,
Yellowson,
Terrestrial Tones,
Lalo Schifrin,
Animal Collective,
Talk Talk,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Ronnie Foster,
Fela Kuti,
UT,
Danielle Patucci,
Funkadelic,
Parry Music,
Blossom Toes,
Thee Headcoats,
Quadrant,
The Angels of Light,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Tomorrow,
Ponytail,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Wire,
Marshall Jefferson,
kango's stein massive,
The Pretty Things,
The Zeros,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
the Swans,
The Stooges,
Qualms,
Ten City,
Arthur Verocai,
Josef K,
The Sisters of Mercy, The Sisters of Mercy, The Sisters of Mercy, The Sisters of Mercy.
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.