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 Marshall Islands and from Jakarta.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 London Community Gospel Choir to the grime 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 Sight & Sound. All the underground hits.
All The Grass Roots tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Technova record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Neu! record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Average White Band,
Ponytail,
Lalann,
Al Stewart,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Inner City,
ABC,
The Buckinghams,
Warren Ellis,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Sonics,
The Slackers,
Y Pants,
Mantronix,
Skriet,
Jeff Lynne,
Electric Prunes,
PIL,
Big Daddy Kane,
Scion,
The Fire Engines,
Archie Shepp,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Leaves,
Lakeside,
Excepter,
The Zeros,
Ultravox,
Theoretical Girls,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The New Christs,
Depeche Mode,
Robert Görl,
Janne Schatter,
Anakelly,
Los Fastidios,
Terrestrial Tones,
Faust,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Bronski Beat,
Monks,
Quantec,
Groovy Waters,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Modern Lovers,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Hot Snakes,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
KRS-One,
Davy DMX,
The Offenders,
The Standells,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Dawn Penn,
The Stooges,
Public Image Ltd.,
Kayak,
The Real Kids,
Ralphi Rosario, Ralphi Rosario, Ralphi Rosario, Ralphi Rosario.
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.