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 Tuvalu and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise 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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Danielle Patucci to the grime kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Normal. All the underground hits.
All Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Five Americans record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ken Boothe record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lakeside,
Duran Duran,
Alison Limerick,
Pulsallama,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Crash Course in Science,
Warren Ellis,
Theoretical Girls,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Fugs,
Khruangbin,
Interpol,
KRS-One,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Siglo XX,
Kayak,
Todd Rundgren,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Marshall Jefferson,
Eric B and Rakim,
Fat Boys,
Skarface,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
the Soft Cell,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Neon Judgement,
The Shadows of Knight,
Johnny Osbourne,
Roger Hodgson,
Minor Threat,
Byron Stingily,
Lyres,
Patti Smith,
ABC,
Black Pus,
Cluster,
Bauhaus,
Jandek,
The Fire Engines,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
New Order,
Reuben Wilson,
FM Einheit,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Rosa Yemen,
Second Layer,
Pet Shop Boys,
Freddie Wadling,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
10cc,
Kevin Saunderson,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
David McCallum,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Camouflage,
CMW,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Lalann,
Jesper Dahlback, Jesper Dahlback, Jesper Dahlback, Jesper Dahlback.
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.