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 Namibia and from Milan.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Lou Reed & Metallica to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Cecil Taylor. All the underground hits.
All June Days tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Index record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Excepter,
Eden Ahbez,
The J.B.'s,
X-101,
David Bowie,
Robert Görl,
Slave,
Thompson Twins,
Nik Kershaw,
Juan Atkins,
the Human League,
Trumans Water,
Funkadelic,
Soul II Soul,
Bobby Womack,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Infiniti,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
the Bar-Kays,
Steve Hackett,
Man Parrish,
Liliput,
Fear,
Lightning Bolt,
Deakin,
The Slackers,
Kayak,
Inner City,
Bauhaus,
ABBA,
Massinfluence,
Neu!,
Silicon Teens,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Buzzcocks,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Divine Comedy,
Kaleidoscope,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Unrelated Segments,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Frankie Knuckles,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Adolescents,
Althea and Donna,
The Young Rascals,
New Order,
Rekid,
Clear Light,
The Happenings,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Flipper,
DNA,
China Crisis,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux.
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.