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 Italy and from Glasgow.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Siouxsie and the Banshees to the disco 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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel. All the underground hits.
All Lou Reed tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Minnie Riperton record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 arpeggiator and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Busters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Thompson Twins,
cv313,
a-ha,
Terry Callier,
The Fuzztones,
L. Decosne,
Dave Gahan,
DNA,
Skaos,
Cameo,
The Wake,
Chrome,
Soft Cell,
Brand Nubian,
Pantaleimon,
B.T. Express,
Ponytail,
Swell Maps,
The Evens,
Terrestrial Tones,
Boogie Down Productions,
Piero Umiliani,
Marshall Jefferson,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Shadows of Knight,
Mission of Burma,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Harpers Bizarre,
CMW,
Liliput,
Pharoah Sanders,
Surgeon,
The Smiths,
In Retrospect,
Bad Manners,
Can,
Connie Case,
Quando Quango,
Barrington Levy,
The Divine Comedy,
Colin Newman,
Marvin Gaye,
Moss Icon,
Easy Going,
Iggy Pop,
The Index,
Audionom,
Rufus Thomas,
Eve St. Jones,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Flesh Eaters,
Big Daddy Kane,
UT,
The Move,
Carl Craig,
Max Romeo,
Television,
The Sound, The Sound, The Sound, The Sound.
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.