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 Yemen and from Calgary.
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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 the Human League to the punk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Young Marble Giants. All the underground hits.
All Tropical Tobacco tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Crispian St. Peters record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 theremin and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fluxion record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Robert Görl,
Accadde A,
Mars,
The Offenders,
Babytalk,
The Red Krayola,
Dave Gahan,
Average White Band,
Glambeats Corp.,
In Retrospect,
Blancmange,
Swell Maps,
The Searchers,
Brick,
Gang of Four,
Amazonics,
Lebanon Hanover,
LL Cool J,
Popol Vuh,
Young Marble Giants,
OOIOO,
Deepchord,
Ultravox,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Marmalade,
Bill Near,
Public Image Ltd.,
Trumans Water,
Sam Rivers,
Magma,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
MDC,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The New Christs,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Sister Nancy,
Derrick Morgan,
Rod Modell,
The Doobie Brothers,
Man Eating Sloth,
Model 500,
Minor Threat,
Youth Brigade,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The United States of America,
Motorama,
Simply Red,
Grandmaster Flash,
Monolake,
MC5,
Schoolly D,
Kaleidoscope,
The Star Department,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Von Mondo,
Sparks,
Icehouse,
Sarah Menescal,
The Skatalites,
Heaven 17,
Piero Umiliani,
Electric Prunes, Electric Prunes, Electric Prunes, Electric Prunes.
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.