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 Nepal and from Woodstock.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Electric Prunes to the techno kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Lou Christie. All the underground hits.
All The Golliwogs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every T. Rex record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Oblivians,
Sound Behaviour,
10cc,
Kevin Saunderson,
Leonard Cohen,
the Slits,
The New Christs,
Ronan,
The Count Five,
Derrick May,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Ultra Naté,
Absolute Body Control,
The Shadows of Knight,
Jeru the Damaja,
Essential Logic,
The Offenders,
Faraquet,
John Lydon,
Robert Hood,
Goldenarms,
Rites of Spring,
Bauhaus,
Moss Icon,
Jawbox,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Smog,
Easy Going,
Ossler,
Peter and Kerry,
Crispy Ambulance,
Bobby Byrd,
The Monochrome Set,
Cybotron,
Symarip,
Lyres,
Scott Walker,
Minny Pops,
Matthew Halsall,
Tears for Fears,
Das Ding,
Pulsallama,
X-101,
L. Decosne,
The Happenings,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Jacob Miller,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Sarah Menescal,
Yellowson,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Modern Lovers,
Delta 5,
Mad Mike,
Hoover,
Section 25,
The Gap Band,
Pere Ubu,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Jeff Mills,
Heavy D & The Boyz, Heavy D & The Boyz, Heavy D & The Boyz, Heavy D & The Boyz.
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.