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 Turkey and from London.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the güiro 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 Brothers Johnson to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 The Walker Brothers. All the underground hits.
All It's A Beautiful Day tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kenny Larkin record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Agent Orange record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Negative Approach,
Dark Day,
The New Christs,
Gichy Dan,
Chrome,
Janne Schatter,
Todd Rundgren,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Black Dice,
Eden Ahbez,
Index,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Marshall Jefferson,
Tears for Fears,
The Move,
One Last Wish,
The Moody Blues,
Suicide,
Pussy Galore,
Throbbing Gristle,
Brothers Johnson,
Average White Band,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Robert Hood,
The Moleskins,
Ultravox,
Boz Scaggs,
Underground Resistance,
Deakin,
Make Up,
Moss Icon,
The Martian,
Tropical Tobacco,
Joe Smooth,
Massinfluence,
Joy Division,
James White and The Blacks,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Surgeon,
Camberwell Now,
Infiniti,
Kayak,
Mandrill,
Pylon,
Barrington Levy,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Shoche,
Sandy B,
Crooked Eye,
Roger Hodgson,
Sarah Menescal,
48th St. Collective,
Metal Thangz,
The Angels of Light,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Sixth Finger,
Angry Samoans,
The Velvet Underground,
Jeff Mills, Jeff Mills, Jeff Mills, Jeff Mills.
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.