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 Netherlands and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Warren Ellis to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 David McCallum. All the underground hits.
All Davy DMX tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Chris & Cosey 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 808 and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Derrick Morgan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lower 48,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Pierre Henry,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Young Rascals,
Wire,
Gerry Rafferty,
Man Eating Sloth,
Harmonia,
Eric Copeland,
Hasil Adkins,
The Names,
The Music Machine,
Sunsets and Hearts,
John Lydon,
Arthur Verocai,
The United States of America,
Donald Byrd,
Amon Düül II,
World's Most,
Aaron Thompson,
Technova,
Man Parrish,
Patti Smith,
PIL,
F. McDonald,
The Remains,
The Walker Brothers,
Eden Ahbez,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Crispian St. Peters,
Procol Harum,
The Golliwogs,
Danielle Patucci,
Minor Threat,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Arab on Radar,
Subhumans,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Yazoo,
Urselle,
The Sonics,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Happenings,
the Soft Cell,
MDC,
Josef K,
Desert Stars,
Eurythmics,
KRS-One,
Tubeway Army,
Funky Four + One,
Sonny Sharrock,
Vladislav Delay,
The Doobie Brothers,
Ice-T,
Japan,
Mantronix,
Letta Mbulu,
Schoolly D,
Audionom,
Juan Atkins, Juan Atkins, Juan Atkins, Juan Atkins.
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.