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 Cyprus and from Shanghai.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Larry & the Blue Notes to the dance kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Gil Scott Heron. All the underground hits.
All Sparks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a clarinet 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 a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Banda Bassotti,
Althea and Donna,
The Happenings,
The Grass Roots,
Gang of Four,
Radio Birdman,
The Neon Judgement,
Throbbing Gristle,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Ralphi Rosario,
Underground Resistance,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Ronnie Foster,
Nico,
Severed Heads,
Brothers Johnson,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Desert Stars,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Eric Copeland,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Arab on Radar,
Lalann,
Cameo,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Ultra Naté,
Crash Course in Science,
Aaron Thompson,
Dave Gahan,
Bronski Beat,
X-Ray Spex,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Knickerbockers,
The Slackers,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Flesh Eaters,
Yusef Lateef,
Reagan Youth,
Wire,
Quantec,
The Residents,
Fad Gadget,
Hasil Adkins,
Young Marble Giants,
Black Sheep,
Procol Harum,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Hot Snakes,
Girls At Our Best!,
Mission of Burma,
Michelle Simonal,
Deakin,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Camouflage,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Zeros,
Marcia Griffiths,
JFA,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Real Kids,
The Gladiators,
John Coltrane, John Coltrane, John Coltrane, John 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.