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 Monaco 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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
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 Metal Thangz to the grunge 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 Vaughan Mason & Crew. All the underground hits.
All Peter and Kerry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Barry Ungar record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Zero Boys,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Agent Orange,
Dark Day,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Tubeway Army,
Letta Mbulu,
the Association,
Television,
John Lydon,
Steve Hackett,
The Toasters,
Johnny Osbourne,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Sonics,
Cal Tjader,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Easy Going,
Amon Düül II,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Icehouse,
Ten City,
Lalann,
Idris Muhammad,
Josef K,
a-ha,
Al Stewart,
Mandrill,
Adolescents,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Visage,
Pharoah Sanders,
X-Ray Spex,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Monochrome Set,
Duran Duran,
OOIOO,
Soul II Soul,
Don Cherry,
LL Cool J,
The Human League,
Nik Kershaw,
Crooked Eye,
Severed Heads,
Q and Not U,
This Heat,
Prince Buster,
Big Daddy Kane,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Desert Stars,
Patti Smith,
Kurtis Blow,
Colin Newman,
Wolf Eyes,
U.S. Maple,
The Alarm Clocks,
Junior Murvin,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap.
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.