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 Micronesia and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise show in London.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade to the grunge 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 Rotary Connection. All the underground hits.
All the Association tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every James Chance & The Contortions record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Star Department record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sparks,
Leonard Cohen,
Glambeats Corp.,
Pagans,
Hot Snakes,
UT,
Patti Smith,
Metal Thangz,
Reuben Wilson,
Mad Mike,
Outsiders,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Rekid,
Thee Headcoats,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Real Kids,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Harry Pussy,
Accadde A,
Excepter,
Theoretical Girls,
Television,
The Dave Clark Five,
Radiohead,
E-Dancer,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Symarip,
Soulsonic Force,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Vainqueur,
Mandrill,
Bang On A Can,
This Heat,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Ken Boothe,
Al Stewart,
Laurel Aitken,
Quando Quango,
Ten City,
Lyres,
John Holt,
Kerri Chandler,
Yusef Lateef,
T.S.O.L.,
Reagan Youth,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Harpers Bizarre,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Blackbyrds,
Monks,
Bad Manners,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Heaven 17,
Chrome,
John Lydon,
Guru Guru,
Ossler,
David McCallum,
Kaleidoscope,
Henry Cow,
Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection.
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.