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 Andorra and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 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 Albert Ayler to the funk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson. All the underground hits.
All Chris & Cosey tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rekid record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 an arpeggiator and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a X-Ray Spex record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Infiniti,
MDC,
Interpol,
The Fall,
Connie Case,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Khruangbin,
Crash Course in Science,
Fluxion,
Colin Newman,
Mad Mike,
Lee Hazlewood,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Grandmaster Flash,
Nico,
Sam Rivers,
The Fire Engines,
Arcadia,
Zapp,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Groovy Waters,
The Music Machine,
The Martian,
The Moleskins,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Roxy Music,
Don Cherry,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
A Flock of Seagulls,
U.S. Maple,
Parry Music,
Maurizio,
Gichy Dan,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Tom Boy,
Crime,
Cheater Slicks,
Rotary Connection,
The Count Five,
The Mummies,
Black Moon,
ABBA,
The Moody Blues,
PIL,
The Residents,
Thompson Twins,
Roxette,
X-102,
Scion,
Fatback Band,
Warren Ellis,
Nas,
The Techniques,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Flash Fearless,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Doors,
Lindisfarne,
The Divine Comedy,
James Chance & The Contortions,
These Immortal Souls,
Radiopuhelimet, Radiopuhelimet, Radiopuhelimet, Radiopuhelimet.
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.