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 Papua New Guinea and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 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 Walker Brothers to the grime 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 Lakeside. All the underground hits.
All Bronski Beat tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every China Crisis 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Judy Mowatt record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Youth Brigade,
Swans,
Cheater Slicks,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Man Parrish,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Sarah Menescal,
Mo-Dettes,
Quantec,
Loose Ends,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Eric Dolphy,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Lyres,
cv313,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Tremeloes,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Young Rascals,
Roxy Music,
Tom Boy,
Bill Near,
Heaven 17,
Lalann,
Lebanon Hanover,
Steve Hackett,
Unrelated Segments,
The Pretty Things,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Underground Resistance,
Juan Atkins,
Arcadia,
Man Eating Sloth,
Tommy Roe,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Leaves,
Echospace,
Rapeman,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Jerry's Kids,
Drexciya,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Kinks,
Gang Green,
The Index,
Eli Mardock,
Ronan,
Mantronix,
Sight & Sound,
Severed Heads,
Eddi Front,
Ultravox,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Jesper Dahlback,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Boogie Down Productions,
Pantaleimon,
Al Stewart,
D'Angelo,
Peter and Kerry,
The Grass Roots,
Sun Ra, Sun Ra, Sun Ra, Sun Ra.
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.