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 Canada and from Spokane.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Chris & Cosey to the disco 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 Roxy Music. All the underground hits.
All Joey Negro tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Young Marble Giants 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Man Parrish record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Janne Schatter,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Minor Threat,
Accadde A,
The Last Poets,
Country Teasers,
Yellowson,
Sexual Harrassment,
The New Christs,
Flash Fearless,
Curtis Mayfield,
Nick Fraelich,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Average White Band,
The Dead C,
UT,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Kas Product,
The Fire Engines,
Lalann,
Tres Demented,
Jacob Miller,
The Detroit Cobras,
Infiniti,
Soul II Soul,
Faust,
Drexciya,
Excepter,
Altered Images,
The Fortunes,
Kevin Saunderson,
Wasted Youth,
Todd Terry,
The Motions,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Quantec,
DJ Style,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Cowsills,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Associates,
Absolute Body Control,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
T.S.O.L.,
Bush Tetras,
Robert Hood,
Throbbing Gristle,
Pere Ubu,
Rufus Thomas,
Skaos,
Little Man,
The J.B.'s,
Niagra,
Lou Reed,
Donald Byrd,
Radiohead, Radiohead, Radiohead, Radiohead.
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.