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 Singapore and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 linndrum 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 Erasure to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Fifty Foot Hose. All the underground hits.
All June of 44 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Swell Maps record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s 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 The Buckinghams record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Beau Brummels,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Zeros,
Cameo,
Sexual Harrassment,
Toni Rubio,
Duran Duran,
Joey Negro,
Ossler,
Sixth Finger,
Sonic Youth,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Bronski Beat,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Alarm Clocks,
Letta Mbulu,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Buzzcocks,
Derrick Morgan,
Camberwell Now,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Graham Central Station,
Second Layer,
Scientists,
Barry Ungar,
Lyres,
Young Marble Giants,
Archie Shepp,
Scott Walker,
The Divine Comedy,
The Monks,
Suburban Knight,
Infiniti,
The Leaves,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Eurythmics,
Matthew Halsall,
Roxy Music,
John Foxx,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Wire,
Fad Gadget,
Arcadia,
Johnny Clarke,
Guru Guru,
Alice Coltrane,
Ultimate Spinach,
PIL,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Move,
Tears for Fears,
X-101,
Lalann,
Stereo Dub,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Barclay James Harvest,
UT,
Laurel Aitken,
Bootsy Collins, Bootsy Collins, Bootsy Collins, Bootsy Collins.
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.