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 Belgium and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 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 Basic Channel to the grunge 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 Dark Day. All the underground hits.
All Carl Craig tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Delta 5 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gastr Del Sol record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
X-102,
Urselle,
The Move,
Spoonie Gee,
Derrick Morgan,
Man Eating Sloth,
Arcadia,
Cluster,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Yazoo,
Soulsonic Force,
Danielle Patucci,
The Motions,
World's Most,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The American Breed,
The Moody Blues,
Circle Jerks,
kango's stein massive,
Public Image Ltd.,
Rod Modell,
Piero Umiliani,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Radiopuhelimet,
Scott Walker,
Silicon Teens,
Cybotron,
Royal Trux,
Trumans Water,
Little Man,
The Monks,
Bauhaus,
Newcleus,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Kayak,
Lindisfarne,
The Blackbyrds,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Searchers,
Amon Düül II,
Todd Rundgren,
Crispy Ambulance,
Sixth Finger,
Model 500,
R.M.O.,
June Days,
Jeru the Damaja,
Darondo,
Janne Schatter,
Derrick May,
UT,
China Crisis,
8 Eyed Spy,
David Axelrod,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Popol Vuh,
James White and The Blacks,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Eyeless In Gaza,
Wasted Youth,
Robert Hood,
Whodini,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five.
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.