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 Gabon and from Copenhagen.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 clarinet 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 Rhythm & Sound to the dance kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Eli Mardock. All the underground hits.
All The Young Rascals tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Detroit Cobras record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 arpeggiator and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Art Ensemble Of Chicago record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Golliwogs,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Procol Harum,
the Germs,
Camberwell Now,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Dave Gahan,
David Bowie,
Sällskapet,
Sound Behaviour,
The Young Rascals,
The Remains,
The Leaves,
FM Einheit,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Matthew Halsall,
New Age Steppers,
Infiniti,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Sight & Sound,
Glenn Branca,
Leonard Cohen,
Motorama,
MDC,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Fall,
Johnny Osbourne,
Harry Pussy,
Marshall Jefferson,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Echospace,
The Smoke,
Jeru the Damaja,
Model 500,
Black Flag,
Talk Talk,
Television Personalities,
Dorothy Ashby,
Cluster,
Amazonics,
Stockholm Monsters,
Fear,
Skaos,
Tommy Roe,
The American Breed,
Black Sheep,
The Index,
Kevin Saunderson,
Television,
Ice-T,
Mars,
Don Cherry,
Harmonia,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Warren Ellis,
The Last Poets,
Chris Corsano,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Qualms,
Blancmange,
Pagans,
Babytalk, Babytalk, Babytalk, Babytalk.
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.