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 Malta and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 8 Eyed Spy to the rock kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish. All the underground hits.
All Kurtis Blow tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Yaz 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eden Ahbez record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Godley & Creme,
R.M.O.,
Maleditus Sound,
Technova,
The Cure,
AZ,
The Vogues,
The Fall,
La Düsseldorf,
Surgeon,
Average White Band,
The Blackbyrds,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
David McCallum,
Gabor Szabo,
Altered Images,
John Holt,
Symarip,
Warren Ellis,
Jeff Mills,
Yazoo,
Agent Orange,
Derrick May,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Monochrome Set,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Black Bananas,
Chris & Cosey,
Aural Exciters,
Bad Manners,
Lebanon Hanover,
Spandau Ballet,
Scan 7,
Scratch Acid,
Urselle,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Barbara Tucker,
The Mojo Men,
Leonard Cohen,
the Human League,
Archie Shepp,
Guru Guru,
Visage,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sound Behaviour,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Marmalade,
The Birthday Party,
Albert Ayler,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Con Funk Shun,
Donald Byrd,
Stereo Dub,
Absolute Body Control,
Don Cherry,
Camberwell Now,
Rekid,
Iggy Pop,
Bronski Beat,
The Litter,
DJ Style,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo.
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.