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 Hungary and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Brass Construction to the grime kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Prince Buster. All the underground hits.
All Cabaret Voltaire tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Cure record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Darondo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar 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?
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Jeff Mills,
Warren Ellis,
Mantronix,
Bobby Womack,
AZ,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Jeff Lynne,
Joe Finger,
Sparks,
Guru Guru,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Public Enemy,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Selecter,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Mark Hollis,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Arcadia,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Sound,
KRS-One,
The Monochrome Set,
Howard Jones,
D'Angelo,
Glenn Branca,
Rekid,
Monks,
Funky Four + One,
Nick Fraelich,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Niagra,
Dave Gahan,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Neon Judgement,
Wire,
Banda Bassotti,
Judy Mowatt,
Reagan Youth,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Man Eating Sloth,
Kayak,
Blake Baxter,
Moebius,
Juan Atkins,
Moss Icon,
Brick,
Das Ding,
the Normal,
Cal Tjader,
David McCallum,
Jandek,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Q and Not U,
F. McDonald,
Nirvana,
the Human League,
The Stooges,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Techniques, The Techniques, The Techniques, The Techniques.
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.