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 the UAE and from Bremen.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Gang Green. All the underground hits.
All Lower 48 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Juan Atkins 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pantaleimon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Japan,
Mantronix,
Wasted Youth,
Kenny Larkin,
Bob Dylan,
New Order,
Rapeman,
Hot Snakes,
Massinfluence,
Lungfish,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Offenders,
Lakeside,
Masters at Work,
Todd Terry,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
John Lydon,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Black Bananas,
June of 44,
The Smoke,
Soft Cell,
The Fire Engines,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Boogie Down Productions,
Outsiders,
Goldenarms,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Peter and Kerry,
Shuggie Otis,
Rakim,
Aural Exciters,
Man Parrish,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Prince Buster,
Joensuu 1685,
Pet Shop Boys,
Brand Nubian,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Bauhaus,
Boz Scaggs,
The Walker Brothers,
The Mojo Men,
Youth Brigade,
Faust,
Depeche Mode,
Ornette Coleman,
Morten Harket,
Radiopuhelimet,
Animal Collective,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Cal Tjader,
Lindisfarne,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Kinks,
The Seeds, The Seeds, The Seeds, The Seeds.
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.