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 Bolivia and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Grandmaster Flash to the grime 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 Youth Brigade. All the underground hits.
All Livin' Joy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Underground Resistance record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Swans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gregory Isaacs,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Negative Approach,
Avey Tare,
David McCallum,
Rotary Connection,
Dennis Brown,
Michelle Simonal,
Mary Jane Girls,
Ralphi Rosario,
Lebanon Hanover,
Fat Boys,
FM Einheit,
The Cure,
Curtis Mayfield,
Matthew Halsall,
Nick Fraelich,
Jeff Lynne,
ABC,
Suicide,
Arcadia,
Cymande,
Hardrive,
Popol Vuh,
Yellowson,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Sarah Menescal,
Glenn Branca,
Throbbing Gristle,
Barry Ungar,
Derrick Morgan,
Roy Ayers,
Warren Ellis,
Y Pants,
Bobby Womack,
Vladislav Delay,
Cluster,
Lower 48,
Magma,
Kayak,
Roxette,
Suburban Knight,
Scrapy,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Soft Cell,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Juan Atkins,
Fad Gadget,
Max Romeo,
New Order,
Basic Channel,
Angry Samoans,
T. Rex,
Oneida,
Wolf Eyes,
This Heat,
Banda Bassotti,
The Slits,
Massinfluence,
Joe Smooth, Joe Smooth, Joe Smooth, Joe Smooth.
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.