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 Tajikistan and from Hong Kong.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Flamin' Groovies to the dance kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Terror Squad Feat. Camron. All the underground hits.
All Tears for Fears tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sun City Girls record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Juan Atkins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camberwell Now,
The Human League,
The Gladiators,
Laurel Aitken,
David Axelrod,
The Smoke,
the Swans,
Deepchord,
The Cure,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Marvin Gaye,
Andrew Hill,
Groovy Waters,
The Skatalites,
Pagans,
The Trojans,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Minor Threat,
The Wake,
Yaz,
Surgeon,
Ornette Coleman,
Rites of Spring,
Lungfish,
Flamin' Groovies,
Liliput,
Albert Ayler,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Icehouse,
The Happenings,
Bang On A Can,
Alton Ellis,
Country Teasers,
Bobby Sherman,
Gang Gang Dance,
Mark Hollis,
The Modern Lovers,
Royal Trux,
Pere Ubu,
EPMD,
Archie Shepp,
The Misunderstood,
Lower 48,
Jerry Gold Smith,
DJ Style,
K-Klass,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Main Source,
Malaria!,
The Motions,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Thee Headcoats,
Jandek,
Black Moon,
Scientists,
Slave,
Essential Logic,
Crooked Eye,
a-ha,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen.
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.