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 Italy and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in 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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 ABBA to the disco 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 Flipper. All the underground hits.
All Bad Manners tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Brick record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 a rhodes and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gian Franco Pienzio record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bill Near,
Skaos,
Ten City,
Ponytail,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Glenn Branca,
Simply Red,
The Human League,
Crispy Ambulance,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Bang On A Can,
The Star Department,
Lower 48,
Subhumans,
Roxy Music,
Ossler,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Gang Starr,
Black Bananas,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Don Cherry,
Freddie Wadling,
Sarah Menescal,
Sugar Minott,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Cecil Taylor,
David Bowie,
Buzzcocks,
Goldenarms,
Agent Orange,
The Searchers,
Easy Going,
Tim Buckley,
Mandrill,
Henry Cow,
Tomorrow,
Sex Pistols,
Electric Prunes,
Ultravox,
Excepter,
Monolake,
The Barracudas,
R.M.O.,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Scan 7,
Drexciya,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Blancmange,
Echospace,
Crash Course in Science,
The Martian,
Brick,
Von Mondo,
Livin' Joy,
Rufus Thomas,
Ituana,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Kayak,
Dark Day,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Fluxion,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Byron Stingily, Byron Stingily, Byron Stingily, Byron Stingily.
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.