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 Honduras and from Johannesburg.
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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Jakarta.
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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the güiro 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 Cabaret Voltaire to the punk 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 Marc Almond. All the underground hits.
All Harry Pussy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eric Copeland 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a In Retrospect record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roxette,
Henry Cow,
Beasts of Bourbon,
A Certain Ratio,
Eden Ahbez,
Flipper,
Yaz,
Clear Light,
R.M.O.,
La Düsseldorf,
Fluxion,
Depeche Mode,
Graham Central Station,
Von Mondo,
The American Breed,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Excepter,
Index,
Yazoo,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Bizarre Inc.,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Throbbing Gristle,
Pantaleimon,
The Alarm Clocks,
Cybotron,
Duran Duran,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
London Community Gospel Choir,
James White and The Blacks,
Deepchord,
Slick Rick,
Sixth Finger,
Intrusion,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Rekid,
Kerrie Biddell,
Minny Pops,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Cameo,
Be Bop Deluxe,
PIL,
Yellowson,
Qualms,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Kinks,
Peter & Gordon,
Danielle Patucci,
Girls At Our Best!,
Gregory Isaacs,
Joyce Sims,
The Selecter,
Can,
The Cure,
Flash Fearless,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Freddie Wadling,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Cramps,
Inner City,
Mo-Dettes, Mo-Dettes, Mo-Dettes, Mo-Dettes.
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.