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 Accra.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 theremin 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 DeepChord presents Echospace to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All Reuben Wilson 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 rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gabor Szabo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kaleidoscope,
Smog,
Cameo,
Pharoah Sanders,
Sixth Finger,
PIL,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Theoretical Girls,
Jacob Miller,
Lower 48,
Alphaville,
The American Breed,
Skaos,
Grey Daturas,
Bobby Sherman,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Newcleus,
Barclay James Harvest,
Bob Dylan,
Shuggie Otis,
the Swans,
The Wake,
Public Enemy,
Gil Scott Heron,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Funky Four + One,
Kerrie Biddell,
Underground Resistance,
Young Marble Giants,
In Retrospect,
The Zeros,
EPMD,
Robert Görl,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Techniques,
Skriet,
U.S. Maple,
the Germs,
Unrelated Segments,
Bobby Byrd,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Anakelly,
Leonard Cohen,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Doors,
Prince Buster,
Neu!,
Accadde A,
Buzzcocks,
This Heat,
Wings,
Malaria!,
David McCallum,
Yellowson,
Fad Gadget,
Lindisfarne,
Sugar Minott,
Eve St. Jones,
Brothers Johnson, Brothers Johnson, Brothers Johnson, Brothers Johnson.
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.