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 Costa Rica and from Portland.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Gang Gang Dance to the rock 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 The Grass Roots. All the underground hits.
All Grandmaster Flash tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dave Gahan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Fire Engines record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Scrapy,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Todd Rundgren,
Davy DMX,
Skriet,
Marc Almond,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
OOIOO,
DJ Sneak,
Ituana,
Yellowson,
Kerri Chandler,
Lou Reed,
Wolf Eyes,
Anakelly,
Peter & Gordon,
Faust,
Hasil Adkins,
Kurtis Blow,
La Düsseldorf,
Matthew Bourne,
The J.B.'s,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Godley & Creme,
Susan Cadogan,
Lalo Schifrin,
Johnny Osbourne,
Tubeway Army,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Sexual Harrassment,
Johnny Clarke,
Bobby Byrd,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Altered Images,
The Count Five,
Mandrill,
the Bar-Kays,
Tres Demented,
Marmalade,
Black Sheep,
Arthur Verocai,
Ronan,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Offenders,
The Saints,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Barracudas,
Absolute Body Control,
June of 44,
Radiopuhelimet,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Evens,
Idris Muhammad,
Lou Christie,
The Index,
Yusef Lateef,
Bluetip,
K-Klass,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Monks,
PIL,
Oblivians, Oblivians, Oblivians, Oblivians.
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.