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 Libya and from Shanghai.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Electric Light Orchestra to the punk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Soul II Soul. All the underground hits.
All T.S.O.L. tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Cure 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Inner City record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pantytec,
Ronan,
Mantronix,
Frankie Knuckles,
Tears for Fears,
Deakin,
Procol Harum,
Quando Quango,
La Düsseldorf,
The Count Five,
Intrusion,
Slave,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
X-102,
B.T. Express,
Cal Tjader,
Monks,
Pantaleimon,
Neil Young,
Mark Hollis,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Excepter,
Eden Ahbez,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Oblivians,
The American Breed,
E-Dancer,
John Foxx,
Yaz,
Derrick Morgan,
Sällskapet,
Neu!,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Fall,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Zero Boys,
EPMD,
Alphaville,
Lakeside,
Bobby Womack,
Depeche Mode,
Quadrant,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Marine Girls,
Skarface,
Average White Band,
Soft Cell,
Easy Going,
The Birthday Party,
Ludus,
Leonard Cohen,
FM Einheit,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Pagans,
Mars,
Babytalk,
Ten City,
Hasil Adkins, Hasil Adkins, Hasil Adkins, Hasil Adkins.
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.