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 Saudi Arabia and from Bremen.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Leonard Cohen to the funk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Flash Fearless. All the underground hits.
All Kas Product tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Public Image Ltd. 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dave Gahan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Brothers Johnson,
The Leaves,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Goldenarms,
Infiniti,
June of 44,
Roxy Music,
Television Personalities,
Ultra Naté,
The Buckinghams,
the Human League,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Bluetip,
Lou Reed,
Josef K,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Basic Channel,
Gang of Four,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Piero Umiliani,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Gang Green,
Country Teasers,
Masters at Work,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Connie Case,
the Germs,
Lyres,
The Motions,
Ten City,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Bobby Byrd,
The Names,
The Cowsills,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Funkadelic,
Ituana,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Skarface,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Tres Demented,
Easy Going,
Audionom,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Absolute Body Control,
Rekid,
Tubeway Army,
Scrapy,
Heaven 17,
Barclay James Harvest,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
the Normal,
Warsaw,
Gregory Isaacs,
Black Sheep,
Rhythm & Sound,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Standells, The Standells, The Standells, The Standells.
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.