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 Peru and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 chamberlin 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 Soft Cell to the disco 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 Nico. All the underground hits.
All Grey Daturas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roger Hodgson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Little Man record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Barbara Tucker,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Nik Kershaw,
The Martian,
Letta Mbulu,
Skaos,
Ponytail,
Nas,
OOIOO,
Freddie Wadling,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Fugs,
The Smoke,
Rosa Yemen,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Bronski Beat,
Anakelly,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
a-ha,
Henry Cow,
The Monochrome Set,
Lee Hazlewood,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Remains,
The Doors,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
JFA,
Albert Ayler,
Khruangbin,
Spoonie Gee,
Hoover,
KRS-One,
The Mojo Men,
Quadrant,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Sight & Sound,
ABC,
Todd Rundgren,
Easy Going,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Crooked Eye,
Basic Channel,
Amon Düül,
Erykah Badu,
Kaleidoscope,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Duran Duran,
Japan,
Sällskapet,
Gerry Rafferty,
Minor Threat,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Knickerbockers,
Sound Behaviour,
Traffic Nightmare,
Alice Coltrane,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Prince Buster,
Trumans Water, Trumans Water, Trumans Water, Trumans Water.
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.