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 Honduras and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 organ 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 Gun Club to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Don Cherry. All the underground hits.
All X-Ray Spex tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lindisfarne 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Quantec,
Moebius,
X-101,
The Tremeloes,
Unrelated Segments,
Aural Exciters,
K-Klass,
This Heat,
DJ Sneak,
Surgeon,
Average White Band,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Flesh Eaters,
Boogie Down Productions,
Ronnie Foster,
Maleditus Sound,
Bobby Sherman,
DNA,
The Invisible,
Eddi Front,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Michelle Simonal,
The Searchers,
Sixth Finger,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Idris Muhammad,
Vladislav Delay,
Tubeway Army,
Icehouse,
MDC,
Marvin Gaye,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Rakim,
David Bowie,
Jesper Dahlback,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Easy Going,
Ice-T,
Marine Girls,
Inner City,
Gastr Del Sol,
John Lydon,
Soul II Soul,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Bad Manners,
In Retrospect,
Quando Quango,
AZ,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Porter Ricks,
The Stooges,
Faust,
Parry Music,
Aswad,
Jerry's Kids,
Barbara Tucker,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Fuzztones,
Underground Resistance,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band.
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.