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 Latvia and from Milan.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 organ 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 AZ to the rap kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Sun Ra Arkestra. All the underground hits.
All Dave Gahan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Young Rascals 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tommy Roe record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Misunderstood,
Jacob Miller,
ABBA,
Cluster,
Toni Rubio,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Visage,
Roxette,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Pretty Things,
Avey Tare,
Derrick Morgan,
Smog,
The Gories,
Brothers Johnson,
Ken Boothe,
Morten Harket,
Gang Starr,
MDC,
The Fuzztones,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Bill Wells,
Crime,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Radiopuhelimet,
Echospace,
David Bowie,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Evens,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Mojo Men,
Ludus,
10cc,
Minutemen,
Tropical Tobacco,
David McCallum,
Silicon Teens,
kango's stein massive,
Chris Corsano,
The Angels of Light,
The Slits,
The New Christs,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Faust,
Nick Fraelich,
Malaria!,
Bauhaus,
Kevin Saunderson,
Moby Grape,
Grey Daturas,
K-Klass,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Smiths,
Accadde A,
F. McDonald,
Monolake,
Audionom,
Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot.
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.