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 Pakistan and from Shanghai.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the guitar 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 Tommy Roe to the punk 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 Subhumans. All the underground hits.
All Symarip tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Public Image Ltd. 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bad Manners record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Shuggie Otis,
Boogie Down Productions,
KRS-One,
The Young Rascals,
Make Up,
This Heat,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
John Holt,
a-ha,
Section 25,
Moby Grape,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Carl Craig,
Maurizio,
The Buckinghams,
Negative Approach,
The Slits,
Ten City,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Blackbyrds,
Chris & Cosey,
Joyce Sims,
Pagans,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Massinfluence,
EPMD,
Maleditus Sound,
Letta Mbulu,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Alphaville,
Sun Ra,
Newcleus,
The Monks,
Lebanon Hanover,
Lower 48,
Rekid,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Ituana,
Harmonia,
Oneida,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Au Pairs,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Bob Dylan,
The Motions,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Josef K,
These Immortal Souls,
Danielle Patucci,
The Move,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Brass Construction,
MC5,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Zapp,
Skarface,
Grey Daturas,
Tom Boy,
The Slackers,
Metal Thangz,
Jacques Brel, Jacques Brel, Jacques Brel, Jacques Brel.
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.