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 Liechtenstein and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 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 Barclay James Harvest to the dance 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 Audionom. All the underground hits.
All Soulsonic Force tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ajijia Myrayebe 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lou Christie record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lakeside,
Flipper,
ABC,
Yellowson,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Amazonics,
Johnny Osbourne,
James White and The Blacks,
The Remains,
Cameo,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Jeru the Damaja,
Rufus Thomas,
Essential Logic,
Todd Terry,
Infiniti,
Aaron Thompson,
Roger Hodgson,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Smoke,
The Raincoats,
Deadbeat,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Crispian St. Peters,
Nico,
Gang Starr,
the Sonics,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
MDC,
Roxette,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Scratch Acid,
Television Personalities,
The Misunderstood,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Liliput,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Rod Modell,
Junior Murvin,
Delon & Dalcan,
Eurythmics,
Popol Vuh,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Walker Brothers,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Flash Fearless,
Fear,
Johnny Clarke,
Joy Division,
Stetsasonic,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Talk Talk,
Tomorrow,
Derrick Morgan,
JFA,
Funkadelic,
Hardrive,
The Wake,
The Cure,
Television,
Easy Going,
Half Japanese, Half Japanese, Half Japanese, Half Japanese.
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.