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 Burkina and from Houston.
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 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 OOIOO to the rap kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Scientists. All the underground hits.
All Flipper tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nico record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Parry Music record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Association,
John Cale,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Young Rascals,
Bizarre Inc.,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Silicon Teens,
Essential Logic,
Goldenarms,
The Count Five,
Babytalk,
Iggy Pop,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
MDC,
Ronan,
The Toasters,
Thompson Twins,
Fatback Band,
Juan Atkins,
Fugazi,
X-102,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Human League,
Chris & Cosey,
Liliput,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Soft Cell,
Nik Kershaw,
Erasure,
T.S.O.L.,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Television,
Minny Pops,
Radiopuhelimet,
a-ha,
Q and Not U,
Leonard Cohen,
L. Decosne,
Talk Talk,
Bobby Womack,
Godley & Creme,
Sonny Sharrock,
T. Rex,
Spoonie Gee,
Rosa Yemen,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Steve Hackett,
The Music Machine,
The Names,
Darondo,
Smog,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Reuben Wilson,
Idris Muhammad,
Von Mondo,
Scion,
Moss Icon,
Mo-Dettes,
Kayak,
Avey Tare,
the Slits,
Cameo, Cameo, Cameo, Cameo.
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.