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 El Salvador and from Taipei.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the linndrum 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 World's Most to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Bad Manners. All the underground hits.
All Janne Schatter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Theoretical Girls 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 an arpeggiator and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ornette Coleman record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron 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?
Terrestrial Tones,
Agitation Free,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Silicon Teens,
10cc,
Skriet,
Audionom,
Toni Rubio,
Pere Ubu,
Electric Prunes,
Lakeside,
Main Source,
World's Most,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
David McCallum,
Andrew Hill,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Delta 5,
The Tremeloes,
Panda Bear,
The Names,
The New Christs,
Rosa Yemen,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Althea and Donna,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Visage,
Graham Central Station,
The Zeros,
Yazoo,
Blake Baxter,
Lower 48,
The Wake,
Johnny Osbourne,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Bizarre Inc.,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Echospace,
Technova,
Rites of Spring,
Kaleidoscope,
Tommy Roe,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Pop Group,
Tim Buckley,
New York Dolls,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Erasure,
Absolute Body Control,
The Busters,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Grey Daturas,
Liliput,
Dual Sessions,
The Music Machine,
Fat Boys,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Motions,
Donald Byrd,
Aloha Tigers,
Inner City, Inner City, Inner City, Inner City.
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.