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 St Lucia and from Hong Kong.
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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 K-Klass to the punk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Agitation Free. All the underground hits.
All Visage tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Selector Dub Narcotic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Interpol record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Arab on Radar,
Flamin' Groovies,
Subhumans,
Sarah Menescal,
The Fugs,
Tubeway Army,
Suburban Knight,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Deakin,
Tomorrow,
Mo-Dettes,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Easy Going,
Jeff Mills,
Toni Rubio,
Erasure,
Gang Gang Dance,
Hoover,
Absolute Body Control,
Soft Machine,
Jacques Brel,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Toasters,
Tres Demented,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Chris & Cosey,
New Order,
Buzzcocks,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Sly & The Family Stone,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
F. McDonald,
The Beau Brummels,
Television Personalities,
Barbara Tucker,
Minnie Riperton,
The Neon Judgement,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Sun Ra,
Kurtis Blow,
Underground Resistance,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Camberwell Now,
Quadrant,
Ken Boothe,
Kayak,
Gang of Four,
Cheater Slicks,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Theoretical Girls,
Bobbi Humphrey,
T. Rex,
June Days,
The Angels of Light,
Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids.
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.