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 Moldova 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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Dave Gahan to the funk 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 Ponytail. All the underground hits.
All One Last Wish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Crash Course in Science 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Neil Young & Crazy Horse record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 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 Kinks,
Sarah Menescal,
Wasted Youth,
Marcia Griffiths,
Fad Gadget,
Robert Görl,
Jimmy McGriff,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Average White Band,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Kerrie Biddell,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Reagan Youth,
Jesper Dahlback,
X-101,
The Young Rascals,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Cramps,
Ten City,
Motorama,
Don Cherry,
Negative Approach,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Robert Wyatt,
8 Eyed Spy,
D'Angelo,
Alison Limerick,
Subhumans,
Kerri Chandler,
Spandau Ballet,
Ronan,
Marine Girls,
Mad Mike,
Porter Ricks,
Procol Harum,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Electric Prunes,
H. Thieme,
Patti Smith,
T.S.O.L.,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Janne Schatter,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Vainqueur,
Y Pants,
The Offenders,
Camberwell Now,
Soulsonic Force,
Mars,
Boredoms,
U.S. Maple,
Deepchord,
Mantronix,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Swell Maps,
Severed Heads,
Outsiders,
JFA,
The Stooges,
Althea and Donna,
Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon.
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.