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 East Timor and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 Donald Fagen 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 Josef K to the punk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Chrome. All the underground hits.
All Donald Byrd tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rotary Connection,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Country Teasers,
This Heat,
Wolf Eyes,
Prince Buster,
X-Ray Spex,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Saccharine Trust,
Theoretical Girls,
Los Fastidios,
Max Romeo,
Jerry's Kids,
Mandrill,
Tears for Fears,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Skaos,
Throbbing Gristle,
ABBA,
the Germs,
Surgeon,
Derrick May,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Doors,
Pharoah Sanders,
Basic Channel,
Barclay James Harvest,
Rapeman,
Trumans Water,
Q65,
Guru Guru,
Dorothy Ashby,
Aaron Thompson,
Gong,
Erasure,
Ultra Naté,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Busters,
Mantronix,
Joe Smooth,
The Vogues,
Gang of Four,
Fugazi,
Fatback Band,
F. McDonald,
Fad Gadget,
Nico,
Ten City,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Chrome,
Eli Mardock,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
the Soft Cell,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Stiv Bators,
Gabor Szabo,
Johnny Osbourne,
Mark Hollis,
John Holt,
Pagans,
Dark Day,
Rekid, Rekid, Rekid, Rekid.
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.