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 Afghanistan and from Lyon.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 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 David Axelrod to the techno 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 Sunsets and Hearts. All the underground hits.
All Vladislav Delay tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Maleditus Sound record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 a linndrum and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter & Gordon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dual Sessions,
The Invisible,
The Buckinghams,
Lebanon Hanover,
Godley & Creme,
Funky Four + One,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Circle Jerks,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Fela Kuti,
ABBA,
Bizarre Inc.,
the Sonics,
Basic Channel,
Niagra,
Livin' Joy,
James White and The Blacks,
Infiniti,
One Last Wish,
Qualms,
Eric Dolphy,
Alison Limerick,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Barry Ungar,
Amon Düül II,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Barracudas,
Newcleus,
Joyce Sims,
Pylon,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Ice-T,
Index,
Rites of Spring,
Interpol,
Angry Samoans,
Magazine,
Lalann,
The Wake,
Kayak,
Babytalk,
Wire,
Depeche Mode,
Gregory Isaacs,
the Human League,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Litter,
Josef K,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
CMW,
D'Angelo,
Sällskapet,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
a-ha,
Dark Day,
cv313,
The Red Krayola,
Pierre Henry,
Accadde A,
Heaven 17,
Bronski Beat, Bronski Beat, Bronski Beat, Bronski Beat.
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.