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 St Lucia and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Sao Paulo.
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 1983 at the first Bronski Beat practice in a loft in Brixton.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 electroclash kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 The Remains. All the underground hits.
All Red Lorry Yellow Lorry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Shadows of Knight 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sandy B record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
China Crisis,
Erasure,
Ponytail,
Sun City Girls,
Loose Ends,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Ludus,
The Leaves,
Lebanon Hanover,
Babytalk,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Crash Course in Science,
Camberwell Now,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Remains,
These Immortal Souls,
Jimmy McGriff,
Skriet,
Jawbox,
the Normal,
Lungfish,
Excepter,
Avey Tare,
Piero Umiliani,
Soft Machine,
Bang On A Can,
Kayak,
Unwound,
Robert Hood,
Q65,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Bronski Beat,
Minor Threat,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Cowsills,
Marcia Griffiths,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Delta 5,
Toni Rubio,
MDC,
ABC,
The Misunderstood,
Rites of Spring,
EPMD,
Barry Ungar,
The Evens,
Isaac Hayes,
Mars,
Half Japanese,
Quando Quango,
The Grass Roots,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Fat Boys,
Mantronix,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Soul Sonic Force,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Jeff Mills,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Blues Magoos,
The Fortunes,
Alphaville,
Harpers Bizarre, Harpers Bizarre, Harpers Bizarre, Harpers Bizarre.
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.