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 Botswana and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 808 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 Thompson Twins to the grunge 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 The Busters. All the underground hits.
All Q and Not U tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mark Hollis record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Deakin record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Matthew Bourne,
Accadde A,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Heaven 17,
Cheater Slicks,
Quadrant,
Adolescents,
the Sonics,
Royal Trux,
Silicon Teens,
John Foxx,
The Raincoats,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Cal Tjader,
Essential Logic,
Basic Channel,
Wire,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Sonics,
Robert Görl,
Qualms,
Visage,
Barbara Tucker,
The Stooges,
Minutemen,
Pierre Henry,
Negative Approach,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
the Fania All-Stars,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Moss Icon,
Youth Brigade,
Ohio Players,
Television Personalities,
Barclay James Harvest,
The American Breed,
Kaleidoscope,
The Wake,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Donald Byrd,
Magma,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
PIL,
Bill Wells,
Jerry's Kids,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Harry Pussy,
The Cramps,
Pere Ubu,
Underground Resistance,
Mars,
Piero Umiliani,
Gregory Isaacs,
A Certain Ratio,
The Monks,
Vladislav Delay,
Camberwell Now,
Tears for Fears, Tears for Fears, Tears for Fears, Tears for Fears.
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.