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 Comoros and from Philadelphia.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the organ 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 Gil Scott Heron to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Flipper. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every MDC record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Harpers Bizarre record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Delta 5,
D'Angelo,
Eddi Front,
Isaac Hayes,
Agitation Free,
The Kinks,
The United States of America,
Maleditus Sound,
The Gories,
The Invisible,
Hardrive,
Yaz,
La Düsseldorf,
Soft Machine,
The Mojo Men,
Crime,
Silicon Teens,
Kenny Larkin,
Lou Christie,
Saccharine Trust,
The Real Kids,
Ultravox,
Ralphi Rosario,
Morten Harket,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Toni Rubio,
Wire,
Black Sheep,
Lower 48,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Names,
Easy Going,
Tomorrow,
Minor Threat,
The Fire Engines,
The Golliwogs,
Gregory Isaacs,
DJ Sneak,
New Age Steppers,
The Buckinghams,
Jacob Miller,
The Offenders,
The Tremeloes,
Ice-T,
The Human League,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Neil Young,
Sound Behaviour,
Hot Snakes,
Grandmaster Flash,
John Holt,
Susan Cadogan,
FM Einheit,
Nik Kershaw,
PIL,
Tres Demented,
Motorama,
Soulsonic Force,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Gerry Rafferty,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Ultra Naté,
In Retrospect,
the Normal, the Normal, the Normal, the Normal.
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.