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 Mexico and from Tehran.
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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the snare 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 Glambeats Corp. to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme. All the underground hits.
All Judy Mowatt tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ralphi Rosario,
Deepchord,
Eurythmics,
Terry Callier,
Radiohead,
Suicide,
The Skatalites,
The Remains,
Flash Fearless,
Agent Orange,
Aloha Tigers,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Techniques,
John Cale,
MDC,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Busters,
The Searchers,
Sexual Harrassment,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The United States of America,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
ABC,
Scratch Acid,
Fad Gadget,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Stiv Bators,
Glambeats Corp.,
Procol Harum,
Eli Mardock,
Metal Thangz,
Gang Gang Dance,
Gang of Four,
Harpers Bizarre,
Morten Harket,
The Offenders,
Lou Reed,
The Stooges,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Reuben Wilson,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Tears for Fears,
PIL,
Pierre Henry,
the Human League,
The Cowsills,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Scion,
Massinfluence,
LL Cool J,
Archie Shepp,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
the Germs,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Mo-Dettes,
Supertramp,
Rod Modell,
Stetsasonic,
Ponytail, Ponytail, Ponytail, Ponytail.
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.