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 Portugal and from Hong Kong.
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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Massinfluence to the electroclash 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 Skaos. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fifty Foot Hose record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 a mellotron and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roxy Music record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sixth Finger,
Chris Corsano,
Pantytec,
Surgeon,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Trojans,
Spoonie Gee,
Icehouse,
Pagans,
Bill Wells,
Peter & Gordon,
Todd Rundgren,
Ten City,
Slick Rick,
Black Flag,
Sun Ra,
Hoover,
Gerry Rafferty,
U.S. Maple,
Bauhaus,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Residents,
Althea and Donna,
Rapeman,
Electric Prunes,
Tubeway Army,
Dawn Penn,
Bob Dylan,
Yazoo,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Ash Ra Tempel,
FM Einheit,
Funkadelic,
Erykah Badu,
Vainqueur,
Kenny Larkin,
The Litter,
Davy DMX,
Nik Kershaw,
Derrick Morgan,
Reagan Youth,
James White and The Blacks,
Boogie Down Productions,
Joe Finger,
Bush Tetras,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
the Soft Cell,
The Searchers,
Simply Red,
Adolescents,
Crime,
Barrington Levy,
Todd Terry,
Symarip,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Minnie Riperton,
The Happenings,
Donald Byrd,
The Raincoats,
Ituana,
the Slits, the Slits, the Slits, the Slits.
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.