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 Lebanon and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Ossler to the disco kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Barrington Levy. All the underground hits.
All Sonny Sharrock tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Yusef Lateef 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
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 Country Teasers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Human League,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Quadrant,
Swell Maps,
Accadde A,
Average White Band,
Angry Samoans,
Technova,
Hashim,
Janne Schatter,
Dark Day,
Pet Shop Boys,
Todd Rundgren,
Scan 7,
the Fania All-Stars,
Max Romeo,
Skarface,
Mantronix,
Flash Fearless,
Idris Muhammad,
Yellowson,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Brass Construction,
Piero Umiliani,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
cv313,
Danielle Patucci,
Trumans Water,
Kenny Larkin,
Newcleus,
Charles Mingus,
Sight & Sound,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Absolute Body Control,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Procol Harum,
Joey Negro,
Boredoms,
Soft Cell,
The Gladiators,
MDC,
The Vogues,
Chris Corsano,
Erasure,
Zapp,
Gastr Del Sol,
Parry Music,
Mr. Review,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Intrusion,
John Coltrane,
Inner City,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Robert Görl,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
OOIOO,
Glenn Branca,
Soul II Soul,
Neil Young,
Silicon Teens,
Steve Hackett,
Amon Düül II, Amon Düül II, Amon Düül II, Amon Düül II.
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.