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 Latvia and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 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 Eyeless In Gaza to the disco 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 Robert Görl. All the underground hits.
All Gary Puckett & The Union Gap 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 rock 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 a synthesizer and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Minutemen record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gil Scott Heron,
Severed Heads,
Morten Harket,
Connie Case,
a-ha,
Erasure,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Alarm Clocks,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Dead C,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Gichy Dan,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Residents,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Unrelated Segments,
MC5,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Victims,
Loose Ends,
Grandmaster Flash,
Eden Ahbez,
Crime,
Basic Channel,
Pagans,
Tubeway Army,
Gang Starr,
cv313,
Camberwell Now,
The Raincoats,
Procol Harum,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Gap Band,
Brand Nubian,
Section 25,
Minny Pops,
Pussy Galore,
The Fire Engines,
Franke,
Cheater Slicks,
The Human League,
John Lydon,
Adolescents,
Andrew Hill,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
KRS-One,
Von Mondo,
The Black Dice,
The Flesh Eaters,
Ten City,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Fortunes,
Fugazi,
Sun City Girls,
This Heat,
UT,
Urselle,
Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew.
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.