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 Zambia and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 marimba 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 Model 500 to the rap kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Heaven 17. All the underground hits.
All The Kinks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The United States of America record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camberwell Now record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Happenings,
Dual Sessions,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Soft Cell,
Radio Birdman,
Jacob Miller,
Alton Ellis,
Stetsasonic,
Oneida,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Litter,
Television Personalities,
Joyce Sims,
Skriet,
Matthew Bourne,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Divine Comedy,
Negative Approach,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Flash Fearless,
The Barracudas,
Robert Görl,
Thee Headcoats,
Gang Gang Dance,
Vainqueur,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Metal Thangz,
Blossom Toes,
John Cale,
Pere Ubu,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Half Japanese,
Hasil Adkins,
Das Ding,
Agitation Free,
Deepchord,
Gil Scott Heron,
Von Mondo,
Audionom,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Clear Light,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Marcia Griffiths,
Sound Behaviour,
the Soft Cell,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Susan Cadogan,
Franke,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Slits,
10cc,
Popol Vuh,
Can,
Lou Christie,
The Fuzztones,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Saints,
Easy Going,
Neil Young,
Lower 48,
Los Fastidios, Los Fastidios, Los Fastidios, Los Fastidios.
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.