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 United States and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 arpeggiator 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 Gabor Szabo to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Heavy D & The Boyz. All the underground hits.
All June of 44 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every James White and The Blacks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Metal Thangz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nico,
Stockholm Monsters,
Half Japanese,
Marcia Griffiths,
Bootsy Collins,
D'Angelo,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Barry Ungar,
The Modern Lovers,
Gil Scott Heron,
Fela Kuti,
Eric Copeland,
The Black Dice,
The Busters,
Gastr Del Sol,
Lalann,
Soul II Soul,
Swans,
Scrapy,
June Days,
ABBA,
Flamin' Groovies,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Black Bananas,
Warsaw,
The Buckinghams,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Aloha Tigers,
Newcleus,
Moby Grape,
Faust,
Glambeats Corp.,
Letta Mbulu,
Althea and Donna,
The Victims,
Kas Product,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Deadbeat,
Minutemen,
Franke,
Gang Green,
Japan,
The Detroit Cobras,
DJ Style,
Ituana,
The Gladiators,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Ronnie Foster,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Motorama,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Ten City,
Sugar Minott,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Eurythmics,
The Fugs,
Arcadia,
K-Klass,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Dave Clark Five,
Chris Corsano, Chris Corsano, Chris Corsano, Chris Corsano.
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.