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 Denmark and from Cairo.
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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the organ 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 Wings to the funk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Nas. All the underground hits.
All Yazoo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sun City Girls 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a DeepChord presents Echospace 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?
the Normal,
The Standells,
Pagans,
These Immortal Souls,
Shoche,
Roxette,
Derrick Morgan,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Scrapy,
Television Personalities,
Graham Central Station,
DJ Style,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Ossler,
ABC,
Black Pus,
Chris Corsano,
LL Cool J,
Minor Threat,
Kevin Saunderson,
Andrew Hill,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Flesh Eaters,
Kayak,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Masters at Work,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Brass Construction,
Roger Hodgson,
The United States of America,
Cluster,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Michelle Simonal,
Kenny Larkin,
48th St. Collective,
Desert Stars,
Cecil Taylor,
Barrington Levy,
Pet Shop Boys,
Magazine,
Vainqueur,
Bronski Beat,
James White and The Blacks,
Heaven 17,
Ken Boothe,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Wire,
MC5,
Lakeside,
Agent Orange,
Easy Going,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Magma,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Porter Ricks,
The Saints,
Stockholm Monsters,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Flash Fearless, Flash Fearless, Flash Fearless, Flash Fearless.
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.