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 Japan and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle 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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Mantronix to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Pagans. All the underground hits.
All Scott Walker + Sunn O))) tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Y Pants record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Gap Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bobby Byrd,
Kayak,
Deepchord,
Intrusion,
Babytalk,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Joy Division,
Pussy Galore,
Lower 48,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Alice Coltrane,
LL Cool J,
Rotary Connection,
Davy DMX,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sister Nancy,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Soulsonic Force,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Pretty Things,
Duran Duran,
John Coltrane,
Kaleidoscope,
Bobby Sherman,
Von Mondo,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Rhythm & Sound,
PIL,
Agitation Free,
Scratch Acid,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Blake Baxter,
Ronnie Foster,
Cecil Taylor,
Loose Ends,
The J.B.'s,
The Dirtbombs,
Gichy Dan,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
cv313,
Erasure,
Drexciya,
Ralphi Rosario,
D'Angelo,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Sexual Harrassment,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Eden Ahbez,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Mojo Men,
Circle Jerks,
Y Pants,
Eli Mardock,
Eddi Front,
Suicide,
Moebius,
Joey Negro,
Graham Central Station,
Essential Logic,
Camouflage,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Yazoo, Yazoo, Yazoo, Yazoo.
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.