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 Toronto.
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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Michelle Simonal to the techno 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 Reagan Youth. All the underground hits.
All Warren Ellis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Terror Squad Feat. Camron record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Zeros record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Moleskins,
Freddie Wadling,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Sonny Sharrock,
Minny Pops,
Slave,
Animal Collective,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Half Japanese,
Chrome,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
This Heat,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Golliwogs,
The Selecter,
New Age Steppers,
Chris & Cosey,
Black Flag,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Patti Smith,
Basic Channel,
Interpol,
Surgeon,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Boogie Down Productions,
E-Dancer,
The Count Five,
DJ Style,
Wally Richardson,
The Leaves,
Swans,
Rapeman,
Warsaw,
Main Source,
AZ,
Roxette,
Nils Olav,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Franke,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Dark Day,
June of 44,
Nik Kershaw,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Pharoah Sanders,
Mantronix,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Yellowson,
Jacob Miller,
The Doobie Brothers,
Andrew Hill,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Can,
The Techniques,
Bluetip,
Talk Talk,
Dead Boys,
Panda Bear,
Depeche Mode,
The Index,
The Last Poets,
Sound Behaviour,
Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad.
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.