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 Bhutan and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel to the disco 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 Albert Ayler. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Judy Mowatt record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jandek,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
T.S.O.L.,
The Misunderstood,
Fad Gadget,
The Walker Brothers,
DJ Style,
Kenny Larkin,
U.S. Maple,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Ludus,
Drive Like Jehu,
Laurel Aitken,
Desert Stars,
Rhythm & Sound,
Lee Hazlewood,
Mantronix,
T. Rex,
The Mojo Men,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Lungfish,
Scratch Acid,
Pylon,
FM Einheit,
Davy DMX,
Crash Course in Science,
Nirvana,
Ultra Naté,
Hot Snakes,
Idris Muhammad,
Erasure,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
cv313,
Outsiders,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Matthew Bourne,
Ronnie Foster,
Tomorrow,
Donald Byrd,
DJ Sneak,
Television,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Residents,
Magma,
Lalann,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Pierre Henry,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Move,
Nick Fraelich,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Slick Rick,
Howard Jones,
Soft Cell,
Brothers Johnson,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Icehouse,
Grandmaster Flash, Grandmaster Flash, Grandmaster Flash, Grandmaster Flash.
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.