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 Pakistan and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 8 Eyed Spy to the electroclash 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 Roger Hodgson. All the underground hits.
All Crash Course in Science tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bizarre Inc. 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nation of Ulysses record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Franke,
Radio Birdman,
Pharoah Sanders,
Prince Buster,
The Modern Lovers,
PIL,
Quadrant,
Bobby Womack,
Audionom,
Lou Christie,
Arab on Radar,
Boogie Down Productions,
The United States of America,
Connie Case,
The Litter,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Aswad,
Nico,
Soul Sonic Force,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Los Fastidios,
Ronan,
Scott Walker,
The Star Department,
Altered Images,
Lightning Bolt,
The Divine Comedy,
Cymande,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Gang of Four,
Stetsasonic,
Massinfluence,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Rekid,
Bang On A Can,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Sonny Sharrock,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Five Americans,
Agent Orange,
Jacob Miller,
JFA,
Archie Shepp,
Niagra,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
UT,
Excepter,
Unwound,
Skarface,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Todd Rundgren,
AZ,
The Zeros,
Ohio Players,
Grandmaster Flash,
Agitation Free,
Ludus,
Dorothy Ashby,
Ten City,
Donny Hathaway,
Gang Starr, Gang Starr, Gang Starr, Gang Starr.
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.