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 Nigeria and from Lyon.
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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Lungfish to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Henry Cow. All the underground hits.
All Barclay James Harvest tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Q65 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Smiths record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dave Gahan,
Derrick Morgan,
Public Enemy,
Lyres,
Rapeman,
The Mojo Men,
The Cowsills,
The Moody Blues,
Kurtis Blow,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
the Normal,
Junior Murvin,
Archie Shepp,
Intrusion,
Tomorrow,
Audionom,
Radiopuhelimet,
K-Klass,
Davy DMX,
Joy Division,
Scratch Acid,
This Heat,
Franke,
Guru Guru,
Ronnie Foster,
Model 500,
Rod Modell,
The Beau Brummels,
Wire,
Glenn Branca,
New York Dolls,
The New Christs,
the Fania All-Stars,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Vainqueur,
Gregory Isaacs,
Barclay James Harvest,
Lungfish,
New Age Steppers,
New Order,
Half Japanese,
The Blues Magoos,
The Invisible,
Sister Nancy,
Sarah Menescal,
Jeru the Damaja,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Dirtbombs,
The Gories,
CMW,
Pagans,
Girls At Our Best!,
MC5,
The Skatalites,
Kerri Chandler,
Ornette Coleman,
DJ Sneak,
Section 25,
Pantaleimon,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Neu!,
London Community Gospel Choir,
It's A Beautiful Day,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.