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 Denmark and from Sao Paulo.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the guitar 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 Lalo Schifrin to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Alison Limerick. All the underground hits.
All Gichy Dan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Massinfluence 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cabaret Voltaire record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Eric Dolphy,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Grauzone,
Moss Icon,
Lower 48,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
MC5,
Simply Red,
Slick Rick,
Marc Almond,
Marshall Jefferson,
Gastr Del Sol,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
T. Rex,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Bill Wells,
Altered Images,
The Stooges,
Essential Logic,
La Düsseldorf,
Excepter,
Roy Ayers,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
LL Cool J,
Bronski Beat,
DJ Style,
The Happenings,
H. Thieme,
One Last Wish,
Accadde A,
Gang Green,
10cc,
Dawn Penn,
Public Image Ltd.,
Buzzcocks,
Alice Coltrane,
Quantec,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Scratch Acid,
Dark Day,
The Victims,
Terry Callier,
Sarah Menescal,
Interpol,
Roxy Music,
Amazonics,
Matthew Halsall,
Loose Ends,
cv313,
Hot Snakes,
Royal Trux,
B.T. Express,
Juan Atkins,
Negative Approach,
Minny Pops,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Severed Heads,
Black Bananas, Black Bananas, Black Bananas, Black Bananas.
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.