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 Kosovo and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 synthesizer 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 Sister Nancy to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Deadbeat. All the underground hits.
All The Moody Blues tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Qualms 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Magazine,
Talk Talk,
Kool Moe Dee,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Alice Coltrane,
Visage,
Basic Channel,
Crispian St. Peters,
Sound Behaviour,
Cheater Slicks,
Dorothy Ashby,
Scan 7,
Sexual Harrassment,
Outsiders,
D'Angelo,
Ralphi Rosario,
JFA,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Freddie Wadling,
Banda Bassotti,
Mantronix,
Eden Ahbez,
Eric B and Rakim,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Cramps,
Crime,
Model 500,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Oneida,
Judy Mowatt,
Scion,
Funkadelic,
Althea and Donna,
Desert Stars,
Reuben Wilson,
Mars,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Arthur Verocai,
Average White Band,
Fear,
the Association,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Pretty Things,
Morten Harket,
Siglo XX,
UT,
Rapeman,
Circle Jerks,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Pagans,
The Five Americans,
Spandau Ballet,
Lower 48,
a-ha,
The Monks,
Supertramp,
Chris Corsano,
Sparks,
Depeche Mode,
World's Most,
Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot.
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.