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 Iceland and from Milan.
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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 organ 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 Saccharine Trust 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 the Swans. All the underground hits.
All Television Personalities tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Harmonia record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gastr Del Sol,
Aaron Thompson,
Lyres,
Joe Finger,
kango's stein massive,
Byron Stingily,
Tropical Tobacco,
Tubeway Army,
Roxy Music,
Bobby Sherman,
Toni Rubio,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Swell Maps,
Steve Hackett,
Khruangbin,
Freddie Wadling,
Marc Almond,
Jeru the Damaja,
Letta Mbulu,
Vladislav Delay,
Wings,
Funkadelic,
MDC,
DJ Sneak,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Supertramp,
Kevin Saunderson,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Clear Light,
The Selecter,
Nirvana,
Michelle Simonal,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
June Days,
T.S.O.L.,
Rod Modell,
Wally Richardson,
The Detroit Cobras,
Second Layer,
Kas Product,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Henry Cow,
Livin' Joy,
Black Pus,
Minny Pops,
Thee Headcoats,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Radiopuhelimet,
Matthew Halsall,
Rotary Connection,
Joe Smooth,
DJ Style,
JFA,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Jacques Brel,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Dennis Brown,
Black Moon,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Faraquet,
Blossom Toes,
Tears for Fears, Tears for Fears, Tears for Fears, Tears for Fears.
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.