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 Serbia and from Delhi.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Soft Cell to the electroclash 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 Rhythim Is Rhythim. All the underground hits.
All James Chance & The Contortions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Carl Craig record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alton Ellis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Stiv Bators,
Lalo Schifrin,
Supertramp,
Nik Kershaw,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Alton Ellis,
kango's stein massive,
Buzzcocks,
Todd Terry,
Ronan,
Robert Wyatt,
Skaos,
The Gun Club,
Moebius,
Gil Scott Heron,
Black Flag,
Ponytail,
The Star Department,
Lakeside,
Ten City,
The Kinks,
Aural Exciters,
Swans,
Angry Samoans,
E-Dancer,
The Happenings,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Cybotron,
Graham Central Station,
Joensuu 1685,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Fire Engines,
Susan Cadogan,
Glenn Branca,
The Gladiators,
Joe Smooth,
Japan,
DNA,
Crime,
Scan 7,
Eric Copeland,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Gap Band,
Chris & Cosey,
Schoolly D,
the Germs,
Rufus Thomas,
Tim Buckley,
Soul II Soul,
Avey Tare,
Godley & Creme,
Kerri Chandler,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Red Krayola,
Neil Young,
Nico,
Black Pus,
Bronski Beat,
Underground Resistance,
A Certain Ratio,
Ash Ra Tempel, Ash Ra Tempel, Ash Ra Tempel, Ash Ra Tempel.
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.