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 Thailand and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Bronski Beat to the techno kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Wire. All the underground hits.
All John Coltrane tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Knickerbockers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Flipper record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hardrive,
The Shadows of Knight,
Jimmy McGriff,
Joe Finger,
Frankie Knuckles,
Pharoah Sanders,
Section 25,
Los Fastidios,
Sonic Youth,
Swell Maps,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Eric Dolphy,
Lakeside,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Judy Mowatt,
Hoover,
Absolute Body Control,
The Gories,
The Birthday Party,
Kurtis Blow,
Schoolly D,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Motorama,
Malaria!,
Wings,
The Monochrome Set,
L. Decosne,
Smog,
Tres Demented,
Faraquet,
The Raincoats,
Susan Cadogan,
Joe Smooth,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Zeros,
Quando Quango,
Alphaville,
Thee Headcoats,
Carl Craig,
Eve St. Jones,
Liliput,
kango's stein massive,
Steve Hackett,
Crooked Eye,
Crime,
Marshall Jefferson,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
U.S. Maple,
James Chance & The Contortions,
New Age Steppers,
Rites of Spring,
DJ Style,
The Black Dice,
Gang Gang Dance,
Young Marble Giants,
Trumans Water,
Youth Brigade,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Five Americans, The Five Americans, The Five Americans, The Five Americans.
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.