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 United Kingdom and from Spokane.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 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 The Cure to the punk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Nik Kershaw. All the underground hits.
All Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cabaret Voltaire 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hashim,
Sight & Sound,
Byron Stingily,
Soul Sonic Force,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Joe Finger,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Traffic Nightmare,
Anakelly,
10cc,
Slave,
Gregory Isaacs,
Magma,
Qualms,
Letta Mbulu,
AZ,
Susan Cadogan,
The Blackbyrds,
Andrew Hill,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Man Eating Sloth,
Donny Hathaway,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Blancmange,
The Walker Brothers,
Main Source,
Mars,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Television Personalities,
Pantaleimon,
The Fall,
James White and The Blacks,
Crash Course in Science,
The American Breed,
Kayak,
Cheater Slicks,
Supertramp,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Trojans,
The J.B.'s,
Zero Boys,
Black Moon,
Quantec,
Chris & Cosey,
ABC,
June Days,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Zeros,
Porter Ricks,
Moby Grape,
Matthew Halsall,
Bush Tetras,
K-Klass,
Ten City,
Skarface,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Patti Smith,
The Detroit Cobras,
Stiv Bators,
Sixth Finger, Sixth Finger, Sixth Finger, Sixth Finger.
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.