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 Ireland and from Houston.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the marimba 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 JFA to the punk 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 Harmonia. All the underground hits.
All Section 25 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The New Christs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alphaville record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Harmonia,
The Searchers,
Model 500,
Symarip,
Lee Hazlewood,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Bizarre Inc.,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Bill Wells,
Soft Machine,
The Busters,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Crispian St. Peters,
Moby Grape,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Monochrome Set,
The Vogues,
Cymande,
Ludus,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
F. McDonald,
Chrome,
Robert Wyatt,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Roxette,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Godley & Creme,
FM Einheit,
Wolf Eyes,
Wasted Youth,
Joe Finger,
Tres Demented,
Cybotron,
The Fire Engines,
OOIOO,
The Last Poets,
The Dave Clark Five,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Max Romeo,
Visage,
Stereo Dub,
Lou Christie,
Soul Sonic Force,
Slick Rick,
Lightning Bolt,
L. Decosne,
Danielle Patucci,
Ohio Players,
KRS-One,
New Order,
Technova,
Sugar Minott,
Crispy Ambulance,
Prince Buster,
Sandy B,
Youth Brigade,
Derrick Morgan,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Boogie Down Productions,
Althea and Donna,
the Sonics, the Sonics, the Sonics, the Sonics.
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.