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 Uruguay and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Eli Mardock to the grime kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Stereo Dub. All the underground hits.
All Joy Division tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Robert Görl record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Mojo Men record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dawn Penn,
Joyce Sims,
Country Teasers,
Andrew Hill,
The Divine Comedy,
Zapp,
DJ Style,
Chrome,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Marmalade,
The New Christs,
Echospace,
Godley & Creme,
Aural Exciters,
Josef K,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Ken Boothe,
Lucky Dragons,
Amon Düül,
Crooked Eye,
Franke,
Quantec,
Chris & Cosey,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Warren Ellis,
Skaos,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Black Moon,
Ice-T,
Althea and Donna,
Blancmange,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Ten City,
Nick Fraelich,
The Invisible,
The Last Poets,
Malaria!,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Tommy Roe,
Eden Ahbez,
Colin Newman,
David Axelrod,
Steve Hackett,
Al Stewart,
Sandy B,
The Gladiators,
Kenny Larkin,
Sam Rivers,
Motorama,
Rites of Spring,
Visage,
Blake Baxter,
Groovy Waters,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Aaron Thompson,
Gang Gang Dance,
New Order,
The Golliwogs,
Eddi Front,
ABBA,
Moebius,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Nico,
Rapeman, Rapeman, Rapeman, Rapeman.
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.