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 Moldova and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 linndrum 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 The Fugs to the grime kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Make Up. All the underground hits.
All Metal Thangz tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam 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 güiro and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eyeless In Gaza,
Amon Düül II,
Bobby Sherman,
The Moleskins,
Fatback Band,
Rhythm & Sound,
Piero Umiliani,
CMW,
Girls At Our Best!,
Lebanon Hanover,
EPMD,
Peter & Gordon,
Outsiders,
Cheater Slicks,
Smog,
Sixth Finger,
Dead Boys,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Techniques,
Roy Ayers,
The Dirtbombs,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Bronski Beat,
LL Cool J,
Gichy Dan,
Cymande,
Agent Orange,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Pharoah Sanders,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Big Daddy Kane,
Roxy Music,
Sister Nancy,
In Retrospect,
The Cramps,
Nils Olav,
Pere Ubu,
The Associates,
This Heat,
Lower 48,
Qualms,
Massinfluence,
Arab on Radar,
The Fuzztones,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Man Eating Sloth,
Marcia Griffiths,
Aural Exciters,
Howard Jones,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Public Image Ltd.,
Judy Mowatt,
The Saints,
Japan,
Magazine,
The Five Americans,
Bauhaus,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Fortunes, The Fortunes, The Fortunes, The Fortunes.
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.