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 Ireland and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Manila.
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 snare 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 Gong to the disco kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Fluxion. All the underground hits.
All Darondo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fugazi 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Associates record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Oneida,
X-101,
Second Layer,
Country Teasers,
Amon Düül II,
Electric Prunes,
48th St. Collective,
Thompson Twins,
Warsaw,
Inner City,
The New Christs,
Gregory Isaacs,
Peter & Gordon,
Nils Olav,
Tim Buckley,
The Moody Blues,
The Grass Roots,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Brass Construction,
Trumans Water,
Talk Talk,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Lungfish,
A Certain Ratio,
Drexciya,
The Pretty Things,
Roxy Music,
The Shadows of Knight,
Sister Nancy,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Slave,
Ralphi Rosario,
Tom Boy,
Hot Snakes,
The Monochrome Set,
Adolescents,
The Flesh Eaters,
Aswad,
Anthony Braxton,
The Mojo Men,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
ABBA,
FM Einheit,
Flamin' Groovies,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Gong,
U.S. Maple,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Dave Clark Five,
Mo-Dettes,
Ronnie Foster,
The Vogues,
Throbbing Gristle,
Idris Muhammad,
Freddie Wadling,
Hashim,
Soul II Soul,
Agent Orange,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Johnny Osbourne,
Piero Umiliani,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch.
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.