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 Montenegro and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Trumans Water to the grime kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Misunderstood. All the underground hits.
All Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Young Marble Giants record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eli Mardock record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kurtis Blow,
Joey Negro,
Goldenarms,
DJ Style,
John Lydon,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The United States of America,
Hot Snakes,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Aloha Tigers,
Peter and Kerry,
Wings,
U.S. Maple,
Masters at Work,
Tropical Tobacco,
Electric Prunes,
Janne Schatter,
The Golliwogs,
The Toasters,
Babytalk,
The Monochrome Set,
Shuggie Otis,
Vladislav Delay,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Standells,
48th St. Collective,
Chris & Cosey,
Faust,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Laurel Aitken,
Eli Mardock,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Glambeats Corp.,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Nico,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Model 500,
Slave,
Junior Murvin,
Black Bananas,
MDC,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Grass Roots,
Pulsallama,
The Blues Magoos,
Dawn Penn,
Hoover,
Ralphi Rosario,
Eden Ahbez,
Zapp,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Minutemen,
Nils Olav,
Lebanon Hanover,
Gichy Dan,
Smog,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Lalo Schifrin,
Blossom Toes,
Blake Baxter,
Con Funk Shun, Con Funk Shun, Con Funk Shun, Con Funk Shun.
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.