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 Calgary.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Niagra to the dance kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Main Source. All the underground hits.
All Bronski Beat tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Arcadia record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 an arpeggiator and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Main Source record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marshall Jefferson,
the Soft Cell,
Simply Red,
Fatback Band,
Dark Day,
Sandy B,
Duran Duran,
Intrusion,
Jesper Dahlback,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Amazonics,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Robert Görl,
Radiopuhelimet,
Mantronix,
Robert Wyatt,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Joey Negro,
Newcleus,
Max Romeo,
Cheater Slicks,
Mission of Burma,
Wings,
Nas,
Scrapy,
DJ Sneak,
Slave,
Steve Hackett,
Index,
James White and The Blacks,
The Offenders,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Trojans,
The Divine Comedy,
Pet Shop Boys,
Buzzcocks,
The Slackers,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Blackbyrds,
John Foxx,
Bootsy Collins,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
AZ,
The Detroit Cobras,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Beau Brummels,
Derrick May,
Matthew Halsall,
Andrew Hill,
Byron Stingily,
Interpol,
Eve St. Jones,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Radiohead,
The Busters,
Lyres,
The Neon Judgement,
10cc,
The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band.
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.