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 Lithuania and from Houston.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the organ 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 Intrusion to the dance 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 Bootsy Collins. All the underground hits.
All The Selecter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tears for Fears record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Audionom record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Al Stewart,
Aswad,
Groovy Waters,
Schoolly D,
Gang of Four,
Procol Harum,
Y Pants,
Organ,
ABC,
Deepchord,
Icehouse,
Ralphi Rosario,
Circle Jerks,
Sound Behaviour,
Das Ding,
Stetsasonic,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Throbbing Gristle,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Carl Craig,
Warsaw,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Pantaleimon,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Scan 7,
Joyce Sims,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Altered Images,
Crash Course in Science,
kango's stein massive,
The Modern Lovers,
Angry Samoans,
Danielle Patucci,
Massinfluence,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Soulsonic Force,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Au Pairs,
Electric Prunes,
Joensuu 1685,
Silicon Teens,
Alton Ellis,
Anakelly,
Boredoms,
Sam Rivers,
Moebius,
New Order,
Freddie Wadling,
the Bar-Kays,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Tubeway Army,
the Germs,
The Cowsills,
Albert Ayler,
Bauhaus,
Wasted Youth,
Minnie Riperton,
Amon Düül,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Babytalk, Babytalk, Babytalk, Babytalk.
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.