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 Dominica and from Glasgow.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 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 Television Personalities to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Essential Logic. All the underground hits.
All Television tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The New Christs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a UT record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Black Dice,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Second Layer,
Rod Modell,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Blackbyrds,
Skaos,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Janne Schatter,
Todd Terry,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Raincoats,
Rapeman,
Agitation Free,
Maurizio,
Lou Reed,
Rotary Connection,
The Five Americans,
Wally Richardson,
Funkadelic,
The Neon Judgement,
Tomorrow,
Jandek,
Roxy Music,
Los Fastidios,
The Slits,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Henry Cow,
The Pop Group,
Mars,
Pantytec,
The Gap Band,
Dawn Penn,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Charles Mingus,
Nico,
Ultra Naté,
The Dead C,
Girls At Our Best!,
Nils Olav,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Howard Jones,
Bootsy Collins,
Patti Smith,
Amon Düül,
The Human League,
Sonic Youth,
Juan Atkins,
Khruangbin,
The American Breed,
Absolute Body Control,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Clear Light,
Television Personalities,
The Selecter,
Bobby Sherman,
The Dirtbombs,
Lalo Schifrin,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Yazoo, Yazoo, Yazoo, Yazoo.
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.