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 Peru and from Stockholm.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Howard Jones to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Jeff Lynne. All the underground hits.
All Joe Smooth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alton Ellis record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Matthew Bourne record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gabor Szabo,
Technova,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Thee Headcoats,
Prince Buster,
Easy Going,
Dave Gahan,
The Velvet Underground,
The Smoke,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Fuzztones,
Kool Moe Dee,
Heaven 17,
T.S.O.L.,
Robert Hood,
Eric B and Rakim,
Magma,
Pierre Henry,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Minor Threat,
Jandek,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Black Pus,
Average White Band,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Underground Resistance,
Bill Wells,
B.T. Express,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Fela Kuti,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Human League,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Grauzone,
Traffic Nightmare,
Babytalk,
Loose Ends,
Oblivians,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Bobby Womack,
the Sonics,
The Golliwogs,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Black Sheep,
Flash Fearless,
The Dave Clark Five,
Brass Construction,
Outsiders,
Banda Bassotti,
Smog,
The Sound,
Darondo,
Rites of Spring,
Mr. Review,
Jacob Miller,
Inner City,
Dead Boys,
Saccharine Trust,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Black Bananas, Black Bananas, Black Bananas, Black Bananas.
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.