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 Chile and from Madrid.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam to the funk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Derrick May. All the underground hits.
All The Saints tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Basic Channel record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Susan Cadogan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Chris & Cosey,
Moby Grape,
10cc,
Arcadia,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Little Man,
Depeche Mode,
Frankie Knuckles,
Simply Red,
Sonic Youth,
Morten Harket,
Albert Ayler,
Crispy Ambulance,
Young Marble Giants,
Scrapy,
Panda Bear,
Vainqueur,
Delon & Dalcan,
Thee Headcoats,
Warsaw,
Agitation Free,
X-102,
Ultravox,
kango's stein massive,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Jandek,
Anakelly,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
E-Dancer,
Maleditus Sound,
Johnny Clarke,
Steve Hackett,
The Searchers,
Grauzone,
Cheater Slicks,
Gichy Dan,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Jerry's Kids,
Eric Copeland,
Das Ding,
Joyce Sims,
Sonny Sharrock,
Symarip,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Khruangbin,
Marcia Griffiths,
Ronnie Foster,
Connie Case,
Gong,
China Crisis,
David McCallum,
Joey Negro,
Ponytail,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Hasil Adkins,
The Black Dice,
the Soft Cell,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Cybotron,
Accadde A,
JFA, JFA, JFA, JFA.
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.