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 Poland and from Paris.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Bill Near to the grime 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 This Heat. All the underground hits.
All The Pop Group tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Offenders record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 a marimba and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Absolute Body Control record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Soft Cell,
Altered Images,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Liliput,
Patti Smith,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Gong,
Jeru the Damaja,
Tubeway Army,
Rufus Thomas,
Kayak,
Vainqueur,
DJ Style,
Pere Ubu,
Minnie Riperton,
Public Image Ltd.,
Zero Boys,
Stereo Dub,
Shuggie Otis,
Hardrive,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Dirtbombs,
Delta 5,
DNA,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Litter,
Subhumans,
Japan,
New Age Steppers,
A Certain Ratio,
Tommy Roe,
Ultimate Spinach,
Sexual Harrassment,
Boz Scaggs,
Ornette Coleman,
The Evens,
Thompson Twins,
Matthew Bourne,
Main Source,
Camouflage,
Spoonie Gee,
Albert Ayler,
Clear Light,
This Heat,
Derrick Morgan,
Fat Boys,
X-Ray Spex,
James White and The Blacks,
B.T. Express,
Youth Brigade,
Siglo XX,
The Busters,
Eve St. Jones,
Wasted Youth,
LL Cool J,
Skaos,
Isaac Hayes,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Jeff Lynne,
Freddie Wadling,
Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions.
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.