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 Bulgaria and from Beijing.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 One Last Wish to the disco kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Grauzone. All the underground hits.
All The Alarm Clocks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mo-Dettes 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mary Jane Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jerry's Kids,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Marcia Griffiths,
La Düsseldorf,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Ten City,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Funky Four + One,
The Buckinghams,
Roger Hodgson,
Soul II Soul,
Stereo Dub,
Icehouse,
Zapp,
Eric Copeland,
Jimmy McGriff,
Howard Jones,
Kas Product,
Faust,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Ralphi Rosario,
New Order,
Pole,
Glambeats Corp.,
Robert Hood,
Susan Cadogan,
Mantronix,
Yazoo,
Nirvana,
Public Image Ltd.,
Tom Boy,
Delta 5,
Eric Dolphy,
Siglo XX,
Chris Corsano,
Kerri Chandler,
Leonard Cohen,
Groovy Waters,
The New Christs,
Darondo,
Monks,
Loose Ends,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Jesper Dahlback,
Pharoah Sanders,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Soulsonic Force,
Wasted Youth,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Raincoats,
Tubeway Army,
the Sonics,
The Shadows of Knight,
Lightning Bolt,
Das Ding,
Kayak,
Kerrie Biddell,
Toni Rubio, Toni Rubio, Toni Rubio, Toni Rubio.
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.