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 Grenada and from Tokyo.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Delta 5 to the dance kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Duran Duran. All the underground hits.
All Marc Almond tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pierre Henry record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 a clarinet and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a a-ha record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bobby Byrd,
Trumans Water,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Rod Modell,
Lee Hazlewood,
Cybotron,
Half Japanese,
The Techniques,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Doobie Brothers,
Flamin' Groovies,
Aloha Tigers,
Silicon Teens,
Deadbeat,
Von Mondo,
China Crisis,
Yusef Lateef,
ABC,
John Holt,
Desert Stars,
Unwound,
One Last Wish,
Tommy Roe,
Technova,
Amon Düül II,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Darondo,
Harpers Bizarre,
K-Klass,
Hardrive,
Suicide,
Kerrie Biddell,
Lou Reed,
Sister Nancy,
Sun City Girls,
Sound Behaviour,
Television,
Fad Gadget,
Jeru the Damaja,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Rites of Spring,
Mark Hollis,
Johnny Osbourne,
Wally Richardson,
8 Eyed Spy,
the Fania All-Stars,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Brick,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Duran Duran,
Scott Walker,
Davy DMX,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Drexciya,
The Stooges,
Wings,
DJ Sneak,
Alice Coltrane, Alice Coltrane, Alice Coltrane, Alice Coltrane.
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.