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 Ghana and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 808 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 Be Bop Deluxe to the rap kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo. All the underground hits.
All Dual Sessions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Drive Like Jehu record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a mellotron 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 theremin and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Qualms,
Pet Shop Boys,
Jeff Lynne,
Gichy Dan,
Juan Atkins,
DJ Sneak,
Piero Umiliani,
The Raincoats,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Marcia Griffiths,
Symarip,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Rites of Spring,
John Foxx,
Gong,
Yazoo,
the Swans,
The Busters,
Funkadelic,
Bill Wells,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Glambeats Corp.,
Ludus,
Darondo,
The Electric Prunes,
Gang Green,
June Days,
Parry Music,
Zapp,
Fugazi,
Roxette,
Radio Birdman,
Procol Harum,
The Blackbyrds,
Desert Stars,
Johnny Clarke,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Gap Band,
Sister Nancy,
Susan Cadogan,
Shoche,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Fela Kuti,
Nirvana,
ABBA,
Trumans Water,
The Flesh Eaters,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Adolescents,
The Cramps,
Monks,
Moby Grape,
Delon & Dalcan,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Blues Magoos,
PIL,
L. Decosne,
Tommy Roe,
Derrick Morgan,
Young Marble Giants,
Japan,
The United States of America,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.