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 Chad and from Lille.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the 808 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 Hardrive to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 David Bowie. All the underground hits.
All Technova tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Depeche Mode record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 guitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Intrusion record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Grauzone,
Rapeman,
Delta 5,
Harmonia,
Youth Brigade,
JFA,
The Cramps,
Leonard Cohen,
Radiopuhelimet,
Kevin Saunderson,
Mantronix,
The Zeros,
Black Pus,
Sun City Girls,
Gong,
The Motions,
Janne Schatter,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Gun Club,
The Invisible,
Nick Fraelich,
Radiohead,
The Beau Brummels,
Cymande,
The Durutti Column,
Malaria!,
Scratch Acid,
The Modern Lovers,
Fluxion,
Cheater Slicks,
Bobby Byrd,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Chrome,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Sixth Finger,
The Pop Group,
Neil Young,
Moss Icon,
Gichy Dan,
Nas,
Lungfish,
Roxette,
Interpol,
China Crisis,
Sarah Menescal,
The Victims,
The Alarm Clocks,
10cc,
Section 25,
Barrington Levy,
The Fuzztones,
Audionom,
Soulsonic Force,
Grandmaster Flash,
Vladislav Delay,
Gang of Four,
Lakeside,
Derrick May,
Technova,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal.
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.