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 Portugal and from Bremen.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Mumbai.
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 1983 at the first Bronski Beat practice in a loft in Brixton.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Newcleus to the funk 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 Letta Mbulu. All the underground hits.
All David Axelrod tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pet Shop Boys 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Oblivians record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Quadrant,
Minny Pops,
Ponytail,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Smiths,
Model 500,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Count Five,
Circle Jerks,
Barrington Levy,
Essential Logic,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Lou Christie,
Tres Demented,
Derrick May,
Adolescents,
The Divine Comedy,
Saccharine Trust,
Eve St. Jones,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Wings,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Electric Prunes,
Lakeside,
Roxy Music,
Mary Jane Girls,
Section 25,
Donny Hathaway,
Josef K,
Anakelly,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Japan,
The Flesh Eaters,
John Holt,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Offenders,
JFA,
The Monks,
Bob Dylan,
The Walker Brothers,
Moss Icon,
Suicide,
Kaleidoscope,
The Pretty Things,
The Buckinghams,
Sällskapet,
Isaac Hayes,
In Retrospect,
Cheater Slicks,
Roy Ayers,
Magazine,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Average White Band,
Cybotron,
The J.B.'s,
Byron Stingily,
The Motions,
Slave,
Yusef Lateef,
Patti Smith,
Rapeman,
Joy Division,
Ronan,
The Gap Band, The Gap Band, The Gap Band, The Gap Band.
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.