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 Indonesia and from Milan.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 harpsichord 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 Charles Mingus to the crunk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Peter and Kerry. All the underground hits.
All Judy Mowatt tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Half Japanese record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Siouxsie and the Banshees record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Neu!,
Amon Düül II,
Groovy Waters,
Sun Ra,
Suburban Knight,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
China Crisis,
New Age Steppers,
Alton Ellis,
Crispy Ambulance,
Pylon,
The Remains,
Scan 7,
Matthew Halsall,
Ludus,
The Star Department,
Glenn Branca,
Newcleus,
Metal Thangz,
Black Moon,
Suicide,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Sound,
Barbara Tucker,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Mantronix,
L. Decosne,
The Gladiators,
John Cale,
Howard Jones,
The Knickerbockers,
Gang of Four,
Wire,
Hardrive,
Camberwell Now,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Saccharine Trust,
T.S.O.L.,
Lee Hazlewood,
Tommy Roe,
CMW,
Rosa Yemen,
Clear Light,
The Black Dice,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Black Pus,
OOIOO,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
the Swans,
The Golliwogs,
Pulsallama,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Scrapy,
Marc Almond,
Goldenarms,
Eve St. Jones,
Jacques Brel,
The Selecter,
Gil Scott Heron,
Joe Smooth,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The J.B.'s, The J.B.'s, The J.B.'s, The J.B.'s.
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.