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 Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 PIL to the rap kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Quantec. All the underground hits.
All Yusef Lateef tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sound Behaviour record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 marimba and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Heaven 17 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tom Boy,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
EPMD,
Clear Light,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Boredoms,
Cluster,
Lindisfarne,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Sugar Minott,
Spandau Ballet,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Idris Muhammad,
Bootsy Collins,
The Leaves,
ABBA,
The Techniques,
Wasted Youth,
Smog,
Nik Kershaw,
Nils Olav,
Bill Near,
Steve Hackett,
Matthew Bourne,
Yaz,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The United States of America,
Bronski Beat,
Goldenarms,
Brass Construction,
The Wake,
The Fuzztones,
H. Thieme,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Delta 5,
Shuggie Otis,
Q65,
Mandrill,
Rapeman,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Modern Lovers,
The Young Rascals,
The Cure,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Barrington Levy,
Make Up,
Franke,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Television,
Danielle Patucci,
kango's stein massive,
Lakeside,
Crash Course in Science,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Robert Wyatt,
Von Mondo,
The Fire Engines,
The Durutti Column,
China Crisis,
a-ha, a-ha, a-ha, a-ha.
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.