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 Lesotho and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Malaria! to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Eden Ahbez. All the underground hits.
All The Dead C tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every New Age Steppers 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a ABBA record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
48th St. Collective,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Kevin Saunderson,
Lower 48,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Girls At Our Best!,
Flamin' Groovies,
Mars,
Ornette Coleman,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Harmonia,
MC5,
Kerrie Biddell,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Radiohead,
Ice-T,
Mad Mike,
AZ,
a-ha,
Ralphi Rosario,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Minny Pops,
Mo-Dettes,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Massinfluence,
Moebius,
Josef K,
Joy Division,
Agent Orange,
Judy Mowatt,
H. Thieme,
Roxy Music,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Underground Resistance,
Excepter,
The Mummies,
Intrusion,
Maleditus Sound,
ABC,
Oblivians,
The Star Department,
Pantaleimon,
In Retrospect,
Todd Terry,
Panda Bear,
Surgeon,
Harpers Bizarre,
Nas,
Rites of Spring,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Dave Gahan,
The Music Machine,
Scratch Acid,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Brothers Johnson,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Monks,
The Wake,
K-Klass,
Urselle,
The Gladiators,
Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz.
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.