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 Somalia and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle 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 1963 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 808 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 Nation of Ulysses to the punk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Lyres. All the underground hits.
All Yellowson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Strawberry Alarm Clock record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 marimba and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Guru Guru record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Max Romeo,
In Retrospect,
Drexciya,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Blancmange,
Jacques Brel,
Marmalade,
Michelle Simonal,
The Monochrome Set,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Tears for Fears,
Cheater Slicks,
Matthew Bourne,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Ten City,
Deepchord,
Chris Corsano,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Faust,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Slick Rick,
The Knickerbockers,
The Count Five,
T.S.O.L.,
Simply Red,
Kerrie Biddell,
Trumans Water,
The New Christs,
Minny Pops,
Guru Guru,
KRS-One,
Don Cherry,
Bootsy Collins,
Black Flag,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Lightning Bolt,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Funky Four + One,
Cybotron,
Brothers Johnson,
Sixth Finger,
Pierre Henry,
The Vogues,
Toni Rubio,
The Martian,
The United States of America,
The Cure,
EPMD,
Supertramp,
The Names,
Grey Daturas,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Blues Magoos,
John Coltrane,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Zeros,
Icehouse,
Bad Manners,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Durutti Column,
Schoolly D,
FM Einheit, FM Einheit, FM Einheit, FM Einheit.
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.