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 Samoa and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in 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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Delhi.
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 güiro 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 Hashim to the jazz 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 cv313. All the underground hits.
All Organ tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marc Almond 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jesper Dahlback record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Girls At Our Best!,
New York Dolls,
Duran Duran,
T.S.O.L.,
Reagan Youth,
Judy Mowatt,
Big Daddy Kane,
Ultravox,
Stiv Bators,
One Last Wish,
John Lydon,
DNA,
Guru Guru,
EPMD,
The Skatalites,
Hashim,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Golliwogs,
Brick,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Trojans,
Essential Logic,
Scott Walker,
The Walker Brothers,
Soul Sonic Force,
Roy Ayers,
Gang of Four,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Residents,
Mars,
Lakeside,
Junior Murvin,
Dual Sessions,
Technova,
The Associates,
The Gladiators,
It's A Beautiful Day,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Morten Harket,
Gastr Del Sol,
Cybotron,
Robert Hood,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Jerry's Kids,
The Count Five,
Vladislav Delay,
X-102,
PIL,
The United States of America,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Sam Rivers,
Glenn Branca,
Marshall Jefferson,
Soulsonic Force,
Au Pairs,
The Evens,
Barbara Tucker,
Cymande,
Wolf Eyes,
Mad Mike,
Interpol, Interpol, Interpol, Interpol.
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.