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 Barbados and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 chamberlin 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 Flash Fearless to the funk 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 Quantec. All the underground hits.
All 10cc tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Icehouse record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 oboe and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Move record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Remains,
The Selecter,
Scrapy,
Janne Schatter,
Cluster,
Howard Jones,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Public Image Ltd.,
Alison Limerick,
the Slits,
Supertramp,
One Last Wish,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Barclay James Harvest,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Durutti Column,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Velvet Underground,
R.M.O.,
Mantronix,
Zapp,
Deepchord,
The Music Machine,
The Detroit Cobras,
Rosa Yemen,
Loose Ends,
Amazonics,
Bronski Beat,
Sound Behaviour,
Nation of Ulysses,
Scratch Acid,
Swell Maps,
The Blackbyrds,
Wolf Eyes,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Quando Quango,
Jandek,
Popol Vuh,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Blossom Toes,
Ultra Naté,
Joey Negro,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Robert Hood,
Reagan Youth,
Althea and Donna,
Crooked Eye,
Half Japanese,
The Golliwogs,
Tubeway Army,
Sugar Minott,
Unwound,
The Human League,
Charles Mingus,
Television Personalities,
Blake Baxter,
Deadbeat,
Duran Duran,
Eyeless In Gaza, Eyeless In Gaza, Eyeless In Gaza, Eyeless In Gaza.
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.