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 Netherlands and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 The Mighty Diamonds to the punk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Goldenarms. All the underground hits.
All H. Thieme tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Don Cherry 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Dave Clark Five record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Minny Pops,
The Dead C,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Intrusion,
Sandy B,
Ten City,
The Standells,
Slick Rick,
Archie Shepp,
Bronski Beat,
A Certain Ratio,
MC5,
Procol Harum,
Japan,
New Order,
Matthew Bourne,
Clear Light,
Iggy Pop,
Gerry Rafferty,
Easy Going,
DJ Style,
Skaos,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Cheater Slicks,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Human League,
Visage,
Zero Boys,
OOIOO,
The Moody Blues,
The Last Poets,
Essential Logic,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Siglo XX,
Average White Band,
Junior Murvin,
Maurizio,
Joy Division,
Sun Ra,
Wasted Youth,
Pulsallama,
Inner City,
Brothers Johnson,
Lee Hazlewood,
Roxy Music,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
John Foxx,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Grass Roots,
Con Funk Shun,
the Soft Cell,
The Golliwogs,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Sam Rivers,
Yaz,
Stockholm Monsters,
Suicide,
The Buckinghams,
Monolake,
Danielle Patucci,
Loose Ends,
Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt.
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.