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 Spain and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Jeff Mills to the jazz kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 John Coltrane. All the underground hits.
All Marvin Gaye tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Goldenarms record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 a clarinet and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Human League,
Q and Not U,
The Walker Brothers,
Absolute Body Control,
World's Most,
Blossom Toes,
Guru Guru,
Pole,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Subhumans,
Reagan Youth,
Bill Wells,
Swans,
Derrick Morgan,
Section 25,
Fugazi,
T.S.O.L.,
The Red Krayola,
The Standells,
F. McDonald,
Sex Pistols,
Sound Behaviour,
Blancmange,
Infiniti,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Rakim,
Yazoo,
The Sonics,
Pharoah Sanders,
Brothers Johnson,
Neu!,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Quadrant,
Ponytail,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Average White Band,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Tubeway Army,
Fela Kuti,
Ossler,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Freddie Wadling,
CMW,
Amon Düül,
This Heat,
Metal Thangz,
Masters at Work,
Alice Coltrane,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Monks,
Adolescents,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Circle Jerks,
Oblivians,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Icehouse,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
the Association,
Pantytec,
Joensuu 1685,
Cluster,
A Certain Ratio,
OOIOO, OOIOO, OOIOO, OOIOO.
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.