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 Armenia and from Tokyo.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the oboe 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 Aaron Thompson to the crunk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 10cc. All the underground hits.
All Marshall Jefferson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hoover 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Slick Rick record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Archie Shepp,
A Certain Ratio,
Tomorrow,
Glenn Branca,
Nils Olav,
The Grass Roots,
Babytalk,
Interpol,
cv313,
The Velvet Underground,
Lungfish,
Ludus,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Essential Logic,
Dawn Penn,
Cameo,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Pierre Henry,
Ultravox,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Metal Thangz,
Michelle Simonal,
The Last Poets,
The Moody Blues,
Scrapy,
Black Bananas,
Soft Machine,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Eve St. Jones,
Byron Stingily,
Deakin,
Main Source,
Maleditus Sound,
Blancmange,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Jeff Mills,
Faust,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Underground Resistance,
Icehouse,
Kenny Larkin,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Janne Schatter,
Joyce Sims,
John Cale,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Bill Wells,
The Happenings,
DJ Sneak,
Public Image Ltd.,
Derrick Morgan,
The Motions,
The Index,
Magma,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Ice-T,
Peter & Gordon,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Todd Rundgren,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica.
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.