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 Switzerland and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle 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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Stiv Bators to the jazz 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 Joy Division. All the underground hits.
All Hardrive tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tom Boy 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 a synthesizer and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cecil Taylor,
Surgeon,
Nick Fraelich,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
David McCallum,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
LL Cool J,
Lou Reed,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Los Fastidios,
Mission of Burma,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Ralphi Rosario,
Crime,
The Fugs,
The Leaves,
Gang of Four,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Altered Images,
Siglo XX,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Nik Kershaw,
Liliput,
Massinfluence,
Joe Finger,
Janne Schatter,
Delta 5,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Roxette,
Susan Cadogan,
Sex Pistols,
Funkadelic,
Scion,
Idris Muhammad,
Laurel Aitken,
Arthur Verocai,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Glambeats Corp.,
Darondo,
Rotary Connection,
Toni Rubio,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Magma,
Scott Walker,
Funky Four + One,
The Star Department,
Spoonie Gee,
Scientists,
Japan,
Von Mondo,
Lakeside,
Sugar Minott,
Masters at Work,
Chris Corsano,
The Searchers,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Lyres,
James White and The Blacks,
Au Pairs,
Kenny Larkin, Kenny Larkin, Kenny Larkin, Kenny Larkin.
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.