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 Equatorial Guinea and from Jakarta.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Minny Pops to the electroclash 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 Letta Mbulu. All the underground hits.
All The Neon Judgement tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Negative Approach record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Bob Dylan,
Yazoo,
Dorothy Ashby,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Pere Ubu,
The Gories,
The Trojans,
R.M.O.,
The J.B.'s,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
the Bar-Kays,
The Grass Roots,
Public Image Ltd.,
Fugazi,
48th St. Collective,
Y Pants,
Kerrie Biddell,
Lalann,
Aaron Thompson,
Barbara Tucker,
Morten Harket,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Kas Product,
Danielle Patucci,
Mars,
Eli Mardock,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Saints,
FM Einheit,
The Skatalites,
Grauzone,
Pylon,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Soul Sonic Force,
Quadrant,
Mantronix,
Lalo Schifrin,
Harry Pussy,
The Sisters of Mercy,
London Community Gospel Choir,
the Human League,
The Leaves,
Nas,
Crooked Eye,
Ken Boothe,
Alton Ellis,
Black Flag,
Babytalk,
Supertramp,
Moebius,
Todd Rundgren,
Kerri Chandler,
Index,
Sly & The Family Stone,
PIL,
Visage,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Excepter,
Sex Pistols,
Shuggie Otis,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
James Chance & The Contortions, James Chance & The Contortions, James Chance & The Contortions, James Chance & The Contortions.
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.