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 Malaysia and from Edmonton.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Bill Near 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 Wasted Youth. All the underground hits.
All Pere Ubu tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a La Düsseldorf record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Los Fastidios,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Doors,
Joe Finger,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Babytalk,
The Toasters,
The Angels of Light,
Marcia Griffiths,
Rekid,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Litter,
The Martian,
Steve Hackett,
The Black Dice,
Average White Band,
Youth Brigade,
James White and The Blacks,
Unrelated Segments,
Soulsonic Force,
Skriet,
Can,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Amon Düül,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Lee Hazlewood,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Sarah Menescal,
Iggy Pop,
Basic Channel,
The Slackers,
Country Teasers,
The Pop Group,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Kaleidoscope,
Black Flag,
Magazine,
Ronnie Foster,
Maleditus Sound,
Tom Boy,
Stockholm Monsters,
Groovy Waters,
Erykah Badu,
Nick Fraelich,
Chris & Cosey,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Deadbeat,
Marc Almond,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Niagra,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Marine Girls,
The Misunderstood,
Jesper Dahlback,
Masters at Work,
Ituana,
Junior Murvin,
Main Source,
Minutemen,
Trumans Water, Trumans Water, Trumans Water, Trumans Water.
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.