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 Benin and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 güiro 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 Tommy Roe to the punk 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 Arab on Radar. All the underground hits.
All Faust tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Neu! record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Agitation Free record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Isaac Hayes,
Avey Tare,
Arab on Radar,
Sound Behaviour,
Peter and Kerry,
Dorothy Ashby,
Josef K,
The Raincoats,
Malaria!,
Pylon,
EPMD,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Gang Green,
The Stooges,
Matthew Bourne,
The Mojo Men,
Motorama,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Thee Headcoats,
Pharoah Sanders,
Girls At Our Best!,
Joensuu 1685,
Ornette Coleman,
Country Teasers,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Mantronix,
The American Breed,
Glenn Branca,
Chrome,
Lower 48,
Vladislav Delay,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Ten City,
David McCallum,
Alphaville,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Grandmaster Flash,
Audionom,
X-Ray Spex,
Eurythmics,
Ossler,
Nico,
Spandau Ballet,
Goldenarms,
Mission of Burma,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Fad Gadget,
Agitation Free,
the Association,
June of 44,
Warren Ellis,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Yazoo,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Agent Orange,
The Martian,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
48th St. Collective, 48th St. Collective, 48th St. Collective, 48th St. Collective.
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.