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 East Timor and from Houston.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Pantaleimon to the electroclash 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 Joensuu 1685. All the underground hits.
All The Skatalites tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every T.S.O.L. 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dave Gahan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Rosa Yemen,
Subhumans,
The Flesh Eaters,
Crime,
Thee Headcoats,
Blossom Toes,
Sugar Minott,
Deepchord,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Barbara Tucker,
Nirvana,
Dawn Penn,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Marine Girls,
The Moody Blues,
Con Funk Shun,
Todd Rundgren,
The Fugs,
Faust,
Tom Boy,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Steve Hackett,
JFA,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Jacob Miller,
Malaria!,
Amon Düül II,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Carl Craig,
KRS-One,
The Durutti Column,
The Slits,
Ultimate Spinach,
Joy Division,
H. Thieme,
Goldenarms,
The Pretty Things,
Dead Boys,
Vladislav Delay,
Gastr Del Sol,
Idris Muhammad,
Rekid,
Cheater Slicks,
Bauhaus,
FM Einheit,
The Fortunes,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Vainqueur,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Royal Trux,
The Divine Comedy,
The Raincoats,
The Red Krayola,
Lou Reed,
DJ Style,
Tears for Fears,
Dual Sessions,
Lindisfarne,
Frankie Knuckles, Frankie Knuckles, Frankie Knuckles, Frankie Knuckles.
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.