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 Japan and from Madrid.
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 1960 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 808 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 Desert Stars to the jazz kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Joe Smooth. All the underground hits.
All 8 Eyed Spy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hot Snakes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Quantec record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Human League,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Guru Guru,
Man Parrish,
The United States of America,
the Bar-Kays,
Stiv Bators,
Neu!,
Throbbing Gristle,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Eden Ahbez,
Vladislav Delay,
The Zeros,
Skaos,
The Fire Engines,
Quadrant,
Camberwell Now,
Tres Demented,
T.S.O.L.,
Wolf Eyes,
Lee Hazlewood,
Soulsonic Force,
Circle Jerks,
John Lydon,
The Martian,
Bronski Beat,
a-ha,
The Electric Prunes,
Jerry's Kids,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Cybotron,
Gang of Four,
K-Klass,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Goldenarms,
The Motions,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Surgeon,
Tomorrow,
Sam Rivers,
Pulsallama,
Eric Dolphy,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Jawbox,
Marshall Jefferson,
Hot Snakes,
Ken Boothe,
Nirvana,
Faust,
Kenny Larkin,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Audionom,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Al Stewart,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Drive Like Jehu,
Cameo,
Barry Ungar,
Connie Case,
Sly & The Family Stone, Sly & The Family Stone, Sly & The Family Stone, Sly & The Family Stone.
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.