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 Senegal and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in 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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 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 Dennis Brown to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Interpol. All the underground hits.
All Rufus Thomas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
E-Dancer,
Eric B and Rakim,
Tomorrow,
Motorama,
Quadrant,
Bad Manners,
Neu!,
Brand Nubian,
David Axelrod,
Patti Smith,
Crooked Eye,
The Human League,
MC5,
Quando Quango,
Dennis Brown,
Erykah Badu,
Cybotron,
Fat Boys,
Colin Newman,
Delon & Dalcan,
Neil Young,
The Black Dice,
Grauzone,
Young Marble Giants,
Anakelly,
Technova,
Lindisfarne,
Rakim,
Bizarre Inc.,
Pierre Henry,
Youth Brigade,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Todd Terry,
Nation of Ulysses,
Excepter,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Saints,
the Association,
8 Eyed Spy,
Pere Ubu,
The Associates,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Birthday Party,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Kerri Chandler,
The Slackers,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
the Slits,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Gregory Isaacs,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Gang Starr,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Tears for Fears,
Pulsallama,
Lakeside,
Matthew Bourne,
Jacob Miller,
Swell Maps,
Sam Rivers, Sam Rivers, Sam Rivers, Sam Rivers.
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.