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 Turkey and from Halifax.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 the Association to the electroclash 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 Yaz. All the underground hits.
All ABBA tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Happenings record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Technova record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Normal,
Absolute Body Control,
the Soft Cell,
KRS-One,
Gang Green,
Neil Young,
Pierre Henry,
The Slits,
Nils Olav,
Scratch Acid,
Grandmaster Flash,
Mission of Burma,
Jeru the Damaja,
Faust,
a-ha,
Flipper,
Hardrive,
Oneida,
Slave,
Nico,
Pharoah Sanders,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Gong,
Skaos,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Reagan Youth,
Traffic Nightmare,
Severed Heads,
Half Japanese,
Dave Gahan,
Gang Starr,
PIL,
The Birthday Party,
Bauhaus,
Bill Wells,
Sex Pistols,
Mandrill,
The Remains,
Oblivians,
Cecil Taylor,
Gang Gang Dance,
New Age Steppers,
The Fall,
Rhythm & Sound,
The New Christs,
Dual Sessions,
Barclay James Harvest,
Bush Tetras,
Pussy Galore,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Detroit Cobras,
Derrick Morgan,
Harmonia,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Alphaville,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Fugs,
the Bar-Kays,
Jerry's Kids,
Wire,
Big Daddy Kane,
Lyres, Lyres, Lyres, Lyres.
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.