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 Monaco and from Sao Paulo.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Siouxsie and the Banshees to the techno kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Moss Icon. All the underground hits.
All Soul Sonic Force tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every cv313 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sixth Finger record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kaleidoscope,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Bronski Beat,
Duran Duran,
Das Ding,
Connie Case,
The Leaves,
Aaron Thompson,
The Fuzztones,
Deadbeat,
The Angels of Light,
A Certain Ratio,
Sex Pistols,
The Cure,
Qualms,
Simply Red,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Johnny Clarke,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Depeche Mode,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Sun Ra,
Sparks,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Vogues,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Junior Murvin,
Cluster,
The Residents,
Skaos,
Quando Quango,
The Monks,
Negative Approach,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Malaria!,
Little Man,
The J.B.'s,
The Five Americans,
Symarip,
the Germs,
The Motions,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Gabor Szabo,
Faust,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Television Personalities,
Jeff Mills,
Youth Brigade,
The Offenders,
Graham Central Station,
Barry Ungar,
B.T. Express,
Eric Dolphy,
Toni Rubio,
Intrusion,
Jacques Brel,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Glambeats Corp.,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Jandek,
The Martian,
Moby Grape, Moby Grape, Moby Grape, Moby Grape.
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.