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 Tunisia and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Milan.
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 harpsichord 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 Patti Smith to the rap kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Fuzztones. All the underground hits.
All Eurythmics tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Oblivians 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dennis Brown record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
FM Einheit,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Ultimate Spinach,
Barry Ungar,
Unwound,
Section 25,
Saccharine Trust,
Anakelly,
Kerri Chandler,
David Bowie,
Television Personalities,
The Modern Lovers,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Iggy Pop,
Robert Wyatt,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Blake Baxter,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Vainqueur,
Thee Headcoats,
Outsiders,
Ultra Naté,
The Move,
Shoche,
Todd Terry,
The Count Five,
Parry Music,
Cameo,
This Heat,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Idris Muhammad,
The Dirtbombs,
Quadrant,
Amon Düül II,
June Days,
Bizarre Inc.,
K-Klass,
Anthony Braxton,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Kaleidoscope,
The Gap Band,
Cybotron,
Black Flag,
Dennis Brown,
LL Cool J,
Steve Hackett,
The Neon Judgement,
Basic Channel,
The Saints,
the Soft Cell,
the Sonics,
Magma,
The Fuzztones,
The Alarm Clocks,
Marvin Gaye,
Buzzcocks,
The Barracudas,
Barclay James Harvest,
H. Thieme,
Rekid, Rekid, Rekid, Rekid.
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.