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 Suriname and from Johannesburg.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Pet Shop Boys to the grunge kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Yazoo. All the underground hits.
All Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Walker Brothers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Smoke record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Faraquet,
Jerry's Kids,
Derrick May,
Glenn Branca,
Subhumans,
Chrome,
Rotary Connection,
The Last Poets,
Oneida,
Skaos,
Magma,
The Raincoats,
Archie Shepp,
Technova,
The Associates,
Basic Channel,
Kool Moe Dee,
Eden Ahbez,
Jacques Brel,
Agent Orange,
Kenny Larkin,
Alison Limerick,
D'Angelo,
The J.B.'s,
Mo-Dettes,
Roxette,
Sam Rivers,
Japan,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Arthur Verocai,
Electric Prunes,
Terry Callier,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Cure,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Sandy B,
T. Rex,
Lyres,
Gang Green,
Sister Nancy,
The Happenings,
Nils Olav,
Fat Boys,
John Holt,
Echospace,
June of 44,
Bauhaus,
Davy DMX,
The Leaves,
The Monks,
Marmalade,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Ossler,
Marshall Jefferson,
Shoche,
Bobby Hutcherson,
X-Ray Spex,
Scan 7,
Flipper,
Jimmy McGriff, Jimmy McGriff, Jimmy McGriff, Jimmy McGriff.
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.