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 Tajikistan and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Infiniti to the grime 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 Gastr Del Sol. All the underground hits.
All Circle Jerks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Motorama record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Neil Young record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rotary Connection,
Derrick May,
The J.B.'s,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Harmonia,
Das Ding,
Vainqueur,
La Düsseldorf,
Tubeway Army,
The Buckinghams,
The Monks,
Althea and Donna,
Godley & Creme,
Chris & Cosey,
Eric Dolphy,
Sällskapet,
The Kinks,
Ice-T,
Metal Thangz,
Lou Reed,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Brothers Johnson,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Black Dice,
Steve Hackett,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Television Personalities,
Isaac Hayes,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Sarah Menescal,
Erykah Badu,
Fugazi,
Johnny Osbourne,
Model 500,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Peter & Gordon,
Arcadia,
Silicon Teens,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Gichy Dan,
R.M.O.,
The Motions,
the Normal,
Ralphi Rosario,
Alphaville,
8 Eyed Spy,
Stiv Bators,
Jeff Mills,
Crispy Ambulance,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Mummies,
Bill Wells,
Sister Nancy,
Danielle Patucci,
Michelle Simonal,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Eden Ahbez,
Rekid,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo.
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.