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 Moldova and from London.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Joensuu 1685 to the dance 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 The Barracudas. All the underground hits.
All Sam Rivers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hot Snakes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soul II Soul record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Matthew Bourne,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Danielle Patucci,
Kas Product,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Human League,
Lou Christie,
The Offenders,
Mo-Dettes,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Boogie Down Productions,
Sex Pistols,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Fela Kuti,
Babytalk,
Sexual Harrassment,
Crime,
Young Marble Giants,
PIL,
The Detroit Cobras,
Reuben Wilson,
Harpers Bizarre,
Freddie Wadling,
Sarah Menescal,
Camouflage,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Flesh Eaters,
One Last Wish,
Kevin Saunderson,
Jeff Mills,
Lucky Dragons,
Dave Gahan,
Warren Ellis,
Bronski Beat,
Rhythm & Sound,
Thompson Twins,
Roy Ayers,
China Crisis,
Crispy Ambulance,
Excepter,
Marine Girls,
Hasil Adkins,
Hot Snakes,
Joyce Sims,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Second Layer,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Graham Central Station,
Wally Richardson,
The Motions,
Drexciya,
Zero Boys,
the Germs,
The Buckinghams,
K-Klass,
Moss Icon,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Lou Reed, Lou Reed, Lou Reed, Lou Reed.
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.