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 Nauru and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 snare 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 Section 25 to the disco 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 Stetsasonic. All the underground hits.
All Japan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Robert Hood record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Chris & Cosey record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gastr Del Sol,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Newcleus,
a-ha,
Kas Product,
Rod Modell,
Scott Walker,
Television,
The Slackers,
Steve Hackett,
The Monochrome Set,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Lee Hazlewood,
Schoolly D,
H. Thieme,
Monks,
The Monks,
Eric Copeland,
The Durutti Column,
The United States of America,
PIL,
Electric Light Orchestra,
E-Dancer,
Letta Mbulu,
Bizarre Inc.,
Derrick Morgan,
Moby Grape,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Groovy Waters,
Symarip,
Ultimate Spinach,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Black Dice,
Underground Resistance,
Organ,
Ituana,
Livin' Joy,
Pere Ubu,
Television Personalities,
Joe Finger,
The Litter,
Todd Terry,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Bobby Womack,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Kevin Saunderson,
Lower 48,
Roxy Music,
Motorama,
Swell Maps,
Interpol,
Ralphi Rosario,
Matthew Bourne,
UT,
Soulsonic Force,
Bronski Beat,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Fad Gadget,
8 Eyed Spy,
Altered Images,
Aaron Thompson,
Ultravox,
Nation of Ulysses, Nation of Ulysses, Nation of Ulysses, Nation of Ulysses.
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.