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 Turkey and from Jakarta.
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 Toronto and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 synthesizer 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 Sight & Sound to the punk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 The Grass Roots. All the underground hits.
All Soulsonic Force tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Buckinghams record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Jesus and Mary Chain record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Stereo Dub,
Darondo,
Hoover,
Nik Kershaw,
Rufus Thomas,
Ronan,
CMW,
The Count Five,
Neil Young,
The Techniques,
Judy Mowatt,
The Red Krayola,
Fluxion,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Hashim,
Alphaville,
Procol Harum,
Fugazi,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Harmonia,
Gichy Dan,
Make Up,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Funky Four + One,
Absolute Body Control,
The Gap Band,
Ultra Naté,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Misunderstood,
DJ Sneak,
Stockholm Monsters,
Sugar Minott,
The Remains,
Grandmaster Flash,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Eric Copeland,
Gregory Isaacs,
Jerry's Kids,
Marshall Jefferson,
Dennis Brown,
The Flesh Eaters,
Curtis Mayfield,
Chrome,
Moby Grape,
Symarip,
Scrapy,
Little Man,
The Move,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Residents,
The Fall,
Sällskapet,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Cal Tjader,
Eddi Front,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Spandau Ballet,
Drive Like Jehu,
Half Japanese,
Electric Prunes,
Lyres,
Joensuu 1685,
Skriet, Skriet, Skriet, Skriet.
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.