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 Kosovo and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Youth Brigade to the rock kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Inner City. All the underground hits.
All Marmalade tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gerry Rafferty record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Public Image Ltd. record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soul Sonic Force,
The Gladiators,
Davy DMX,
Young Marble Giants,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Victims,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Steve Hackett,
the Swans,
Tommy Roe,
Roy Ayers,
Urselle,
The Detroit Cobras,
Albert Ayler,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Joey Negro,
The Music Machine,
Funkadelic,
Sarah Menescal,
Moss Icon,
This Heat,
Easy Going,
Can,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Index,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Nik Kershaw,
Ituana,
One Last Wish,
Suburban Knight,
Tim Buckley,
Morten Harket,
Angry Samoans,
Severed Heads,
Arthur Verocai,
Technova,
Kerrie Biddell,
Cymande,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Sam Rivers,
Maleditus Sound,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Motions,
Jacques Brel,
Bizarre Inc.,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Niagra,
Q65,
The Doors,
The Smoke,
Pylon,
Interpol,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Rakim,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Don Cherry,
Audionom,
The Moleskins, The Moleskins, The Moleskins, The Moleskins.
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.