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 Belgium and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle 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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 Michael McDonald 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 Cure to the disco kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 JFA. All the underground hits.
All Tomorrow tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fall 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Warren Ellis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter & Gordon,
Harpers Bizarre,
Liliput,
Sun City Girls,
the Sonics,
Subhumans,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Gang of Four,
Vladislav Delay,
The Pop Group,
Iggy Pop,
Easy Going,
Interpol,
Negative Approach,
Desert Stars,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
the Slits,
Warsaw,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Flesh Eaters,
Marshall Jefferson,
Pylon,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Sonics,
The Sound,
Graham Central Station,
Camberwell Now,
Lucky Dragons,
Pantytec,
Mr. Review,
Erykah Badu,
Tubeway Army,
kango's stein massive,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Saccharine Trust,
Don Cherry,
Sound Behaviour,
Kerri Chandler,
Half Japanese,
The Gun Club,
Cheater Slicks,
the Fania All-Stars,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Yaz,
Niagra,
the Normal,
Ossler,
Monolake,
Harry Pussy,
The Neon Judgement,
The Monks,
Robert Hood,
Ituana,
The Smiths,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Barbara Tucker,
Adolescents,
Mad Mike,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Andrew Hill, Andrew Hill, Andrew Hill, Andrew Hill.
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.