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 Tajikistan and from Manila.
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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 oboe 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 Brick to the funk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Boz Scaggs. All the underground hits.
All Mark Hollis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Japan 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Knickerbockers,
Scientists,
Radio Birdman,
Lightning Bolt,
Roxette,
Infiniti,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Harpers Bizarre,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Shuggie Otis,
Radiohead,
Quantec,
Alice Coltrane,
Marshall Jefferson,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Modern Lovers,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Fall,
Sun City Girls,
The J.B.'s,
Rotary Connection,
Cameo,
Fat Boys,
Sun Ra,
DNA,
Ossler,
Barbara Tucker,
Camberwell Now,
Camouflage,
Bill Near,
Nirvana,
Oblivians,
The Doors,
Tom Boy,
FM Einheit,
Joyce Sims,
Public Image Ltd.,
Cheater Slicks,
Skaos,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Warren Ellis,
Frankie Knuckles,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Walker Brothers,
Sugar Minott,
Supertramp,
Can,
The Invisible,
Aaron Thompson,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Peter & Gordon,
Derrick Morgan,
Bobby Byrd,
Arab on Radar,
Bobby Womack,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Wake,
James Chance & The Contortions,
the Sonics,
Derrick May,
Al Stewart,
Morten Harket, Morten Harket, Morten Harket, Morten Harket.
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.