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 Brazil and from Accra.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Jakarta.
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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the oboe 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 Marc Almond to the grunge kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Janne Schatter. All the underground hits.
All Pagans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ituana 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 synthesizer and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Man Eating Sloth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Surgeon,
Robert Wyatt,
Kayak,
Simply Red,
Joyce Sims,
The Sonics,
the Soft Cell,
Pet Shop Boys,
Brand Nubian,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Skatalites,
Suicide,
Boz Scaggs,
The Five Americans,
Procol Harum,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Deakin,
Prince Buster,
Brass Construction,
Magazine,
Toni Rubio,
Amazonics,
Yellowson,
Main Source,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Silicon Teens,
Mission of Burma,
Rapeman,
Crooked Eye,
Vainqueur,
Frankie Knuckles,
New Age Steppers,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Monolake,
MC5,
Jandek,
Pussy Galore,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Intrusion,
Roxette,
Cameo,
Lower 48,
Tom Boy,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Ice-T,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
One Last Wish,
These Immortal Souls,
Joy Division,
The Remains,
Sällskapet,
Hashim,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Cybotron,
Franke,
Urselle,
Eyeless In Gaza,
ABBA,
Porter Ricks,
Electric Light Orchestra, Electric Light Orchestra, Electric Light Orchestra, Electric Light Orchestra.
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.