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 Malawi and from Johannesburg.
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 1962 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the theremin 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 Thompson Twins to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Negative Approach. All the underground hits.
All The Selecter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hashim record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter and Kerry,
Von Mondo,
Funkadelic,
Boredoms,
Unrelated Segments,
Kevin Saunderson,
Flash Fearless,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Matthew Halsall,
DJ Style,
Niagra,
Dual Sessions,
John Cale,
Al Stewart,
Can,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Minny Pops,
Quantec,
The Saints,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Magma,
Monks,
Ponytail,
Schoolly D,
X-Ray Spex,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Kas Product,
Black Moon,
Kerrie Biddell,
Subhumans,
Darondo,
Wally Richardson,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Birthday Party,
Eddi Front,
The Stooges,
Moss Icon,
Bobby Womack,
Heaven 17,
Cluster,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Moleskins,
The Beau Brummels,
Brand Nubian,
Surgeon,
Thompson Twins,
Soulsonic Force,
Stereo Dub,
Reagan Youth,
The Sonics,
Aloha Tigers,
The Happenings,
The Invisible,
Tubeway Army,
Bronski Beat,
Black Sheep,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Lalo Schifrin,
OOIOO,
Tim Buckley,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Sugar Minott,
La Düsseldorf, La Düsseldorf, La Düsseldorf, La Düsseldorf.
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.