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 Germany and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 marimba 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 The Walker Brothers to the grime kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Slackers. All the underground hits.
All Massinfluence tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alison Limerick 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cheater Slicks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Moebius,
In Retrospect,
Janne Schatter,
Archie Shepp,
Accadde A,
Delta 5,
The Litter,
Sun City Girls,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Skriet,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Howard Jones,
Joe Finger,
Organ,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Desert Stars,
Section 25,
Brass Construction,
The Flesh Eaters,
F. McDonald,
Urselle,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
John Foxx,
Agent Orange,
The Skatalites,
Ralphi Rosario,
Wolf Eyes,
The Fugs,
Quantec,
Darondo,
Faust,
Roxette,
Blossom Toes,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Soul Sonic Force,
Loose Ends,
Girls At Our Best!,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Zeros,
Dead Boys,
Public Enemy,
Severed Heads,
The Evens,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Juan Atkins,
Kerrie Biddell,
Peter & Gordon,
8 Eyed Spy,
Intrusion,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Absolute Body Control,
The Gories,
Camberwell Now,
Ken Boothe,
H. Thieme,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Royal Trux,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Neil Young,
Connie Case,
Flash Fearless, Flash Fearless, Flash Fearless, Flash Fearless.
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.