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 Portugal and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 808 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 Saccharine Trust to the grime kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Dual Sessions. All the underground hits.
All The Monochrome Set tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Radio Birdman record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 theremin and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Wally Richardson,
K-Klass,
The Electric Prunes,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Martian,
The Searchers,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Carl Craig,
Wings,
Von Mondo,
The Music Machine,
Gil Scott Heron,
Boz Scaggs,
UT,
Nico,
LL Cool J,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Young Marble Giants,
Motorama,
Sparks,
John Holt,
Jimmy McGriff,
Derrick May,
Ten City,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Wire,
Malaria!,
Barbara Tucker,
Unwound,
Rakim,
Icehouse,
Little Man,
Fatback Band,
The Birthday Party,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Absolute Body Control,
The Techniques,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Kerri Chandler,
The Seeds,
Neil Young,
Excepter,
The Busters,
Eli Mardock,
Alton Ellis,
Mantronix,
Rufus Thomas,
Ultravox,
Bauhaus,
Brothers Johnson,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Quando Quango,
Visage,
Moebius,
Faraquet,
Aural Exciters,
Q and Not U,
The Fugs,
Joensuu 1685,
Sex Pistols,
The Evens,
Marc Almond,
Erasure, Erasure, Erasure, Erasure.
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.