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 Burundi and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Lagos.
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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Bronski Beat to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Chris & Cosey. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 sitar and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Flesh Eaters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soft Cell,
Ultravox,
Crispian St. Peters,
Skriet,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Andrew Hill,
The Saints,
Ken Boothe,
The Cure,
Gil Scott Heron,
Talk Talk,
Section 25,
Parry Music,
Radiopuhelimet,
Black Pus,
Schoolly D,
Absolute Body Control,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Banda Bassotti,
Black Bananas,
Supertramp,
Deadbeat,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Idris Muhammad,
Piero Umiliani,
Slave,
Aaron Thompson,
The Fuzztones,
UT,
Gang Starr,
Fela Kuti,
The Velvet Underground,
Cybotron,
Susan Cadogan,
10cc,
Anthony Braxton,
Joyce Sims,
Gichy Dan,
Brick,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Sight & Sound,
James White and The Blacks,
June of 44,
LL Cool J,
Gastr Del Sol,
Gang of Four,
Colin Newman,
Dual Sessions,
Popol Vuh,
The Star Department,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Roxette,
Gong,
David McCallum,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Marshall Jefferson,
Saccharine Trust,
Marine Girls,
The Grass Roots,
Donny Hathaway, Donny Hathaway, Donny Hathaway, Donny Hathaway.
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.