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 Vietnam and from Jakarta.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Lakeside to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 PIL. All the underground hits.
All Delta 5 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eli Mardock 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jesper Dahlback record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Brick,
Joensuu 1685,
Kevin Saunderson,
James White and The Blacks,
Barclay James Harvest,
Radiohead,
Grey Daturas,
Deepchord,
The Pretty Things,
The Mummies,
Boogie Down Productions,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Chris Corsano,
Niagra,
Gerry Rafferty,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Echospace,
Amazonics,
Guru Guru,
The Raincoats,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Kerrie Biddell,
Main Source,
Carl Craig,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Barracudas,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Minor Threat,
Gil Scott Heron,
Altered Images,
The Techniques,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Nick Fraelich,
Black Sheep,
Q and Not U,
Don Cherry,
a-ha,
Graham Central Station,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Faust,
Jeff Mills,
Tommy Roe,
Amon Düül II,
Infiniti,
In Retrospect,
Eric Dolphy,
Sonic Youth,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Martian,
The Mighty Diamonds,
ABC,
The Fire Engines,
Scratch Acid,
Soul Sonic Force,
Skarface,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Soul II Soul,
Sex Pistols,
Gang Starr,
T.S.O.L.,
Dawn Penn,
Aloha Tigers,
The Knickerbockers,
The Fall, The Fall, The Fall, The Fall.
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.