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 St Lucia and from Paris.
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 Manchester and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Walker Brothers to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Iggy Pop. All the underground hits.
All Basic Channel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every One Last Wish record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pet Shop Boys record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soul Sonic Force,
Model 500,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Man Eating Sloth,
Negative Approach,
Lakeside,
Ronnie Foster,
The Martian,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Skatalites,
the Normal,
F. McDonald,
Urselle,
The Trojans,
Fatback Band,
Deakin,
the Swans,
Fad Gadget,
The Gun Club,
Graham Central Station,
Sister Nancy,
Arthur Verocai,
Wasted Youth,
Ten City,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Rotary Connection,
PIL,
Tubeway Army,
One Last Wish,
DNA,
Funky Four + One,
Delon & Dalcan,
cv313,
Skaos,
The Moleskins,
The Real Kids,
Scratch Acid,
The Sonics,
X-102,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Max Romeo,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Music Machine,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Zeros,
Mr. Review,
The Gories,
Ludus,
Marshall Jefferson,
Jimmy McGriff,
the Soft Cell,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Drive Like Jehu,
Pulsallama,
Howard Jones,
Radiohead,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Shadows of Knight,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.