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 Israel and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Boogie Down Productions to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Ituana. All the underground hits.
All Mantronix tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pere Ubu record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Doors record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Blake Baxter,
The Durutti Column,
Throbbing Gristle,
Idris Muhammad,
The Walker Brothers,
Basic Channel,
Qualms,
Max Romeo,
Deepchord,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Black Dice,
Robert Wyatt,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
OOIOO,
Neu!,
Sun Ra,
FM Einheit,
Bill Near,
Los Fastidios,
June Days,
Sun City Girls,
Groovy Waters,
Negative Approach,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Crispy Ambulance,
Faraquet,
Morten Harket,
Joe Finger,
Echospace,
Erasure,
The Selecter,
Erykah Badu,
June of 44,
Barry Ungar,
Cameo,
Subhumans,
Chrome,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Silicon Teens,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Nico,
World's Most,
Zero Boys,
James White and The Blacks,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
John Lydon,
Inner City,
The Vogues,
Skarface,
Boredoms,
Cecil Taylor,
The Zeros,
Public Image Ltd.,
Sugar Minott,
The Offenders,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Lebanon Hanover,
Radio Birdman,
These Immortal Souls,
Loose Ends,
Soft Cell, Soft Cell, Soft Cell, Soft Cell.
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.