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 Congo 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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the 808 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 Prince Buster to the electroclash 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 Urselle. All the underground hits.
All The Martian tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every PIL 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alison Limerick record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Cybotron,
Pierre Henry,
Mad Mike,
Vainqueur,
Mo-Dettes,
Peter & Gordon,
Nas,
The Raincoats,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Little Man,
Frankie Knuckles,
Bad Manners,
Eddi Front,
Hashim,
The Modern Lovers,
Robert Hood,
10cc,
Sister Nancy,
Soulsonic Force,
Absolute Body Control,
London Community Gospel Choir,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Brass Construction,
Sixth Finger,
The Zeros,
ABC,
Nirvana,
Easy Going,
The Monochrome Set,
Scientists,
The Shadows of Knight,
Guru Guru,
Technova,
Gerry Rafferty,
Marshall Jefferson,
David McCallum,
Sandy B,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
PIL,
Jacob Miller,
Gang of Four,
Deadbeat,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Los Fastidios,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Scratch Acid,
Magma,
Hardrive,
The Star Department,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The New Christs,
Dawn Penn,
Henry Cow,
Drive Like Jehu,
Lou Christie,
Scion,
Al Stewart,
Bush Tetras,
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.