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 Panama and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 theremin 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 Pere Ubu to the rap kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Sarah Menescal. All the underground hits.
All Vainqueur tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Godley & Creme 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Vainqueur record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Robert Hood,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Blackbyrds,
The Monochrome Set,
Parry Music,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Piero Umiliani,
The Pop Group,
Sparks,
Wire,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Subhumans,
The Fall,
The Blues Magoos,
H. Thieme,
Nils Olav,
Marshall Jefferson,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Donald Byrd,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Q and Not U,
Massinfluence,
Main Source,
Infiniti,
The Tremeloes,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Kas Product,
MC5,
Heaven 17,
Thee Headcoats,
Jandek,
Roxette,
The Electric Prunes,
Vladislav Delay,
John Cale,
Nik Kershaw,
Basic Channel,
Yaz,
Das Ding,
Vainqueur,
X-101,
Tommy Roe,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Tomorrow,
Freddie Wadling,
F. McDonald,
The Trojans,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Golliwogs,
Blancmange,
The Evens,
The Moleskins,
Ludus,
Michelle Simonal,
KRS-One,
Connie Case,
The Gun Club,
Desert Stars,
Albert Ayler,
Cheater Slicks,
Eddi Front, Eddi Front, Eddi Front, Eddi Front.
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.