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 Algeria 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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Matthew Halsall to the techno 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 Searchers. All the underground hits.
All Jandek tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Throbbing Gristle record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Monolake,
X-Ray Spex,
Kool Moe Dee,
Michelle Simonal,
Max Romeo,
Iggy Pop,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
ABBA,
PIL,
Susan Cadogan,
The Tremeloes,
Jeru the Damaja,
Fatback Band,
Jerry's Kids,
The Busters,
New Age Steppers,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Mo-Dettes,
Oblivians,
Moss Icon,
Idris Muhammad,
The Toasters,
Todd Rundgren,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Skriet,
Barry Ungar,
Hasil Adkins,
cv313,
Agitation Free,
Zero Boys,
Pet Shop Boys,
June of 44,
The Fugs,
Derrick Morgan,
The Fortunes,
Marvin Gaye,
Barclay James Harvest,
Gichy Dan,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Sarah Menescal,
Soft Cell,
Barbara Tucker,
Average White Band,
Ponytail,
Loose Ends,
The Red Krayola,
Sight & Sound,
John Cale,
Steve Hackett,
Nik Kershaw,
Joey Negro,
Lalann,
Pere Ubu,
Ultravox,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Alarm Clocks,
Bootsy Collins,
Y Pants, Y Pants, Y Pants, Y Pants.
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.