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 Albania and from Beijing.
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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Cybotron to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Nation of Ulysses. All the underground hits.
All Gabor Szabo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cal Tjader record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Shadows of Knight record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bobby Hutcherson,
Gang Gang Dance,
Average White Band,
Marc Almond,
Von Mondo,
Drive Like Jehu,
Donald Byrd,
The Seeds,
Sound Behaviour,
Grauzone,
The Tremeloes,
The Cramps,
Gregory Isaacs,
Ultra Naté,
The Happenings,
The Shadows of Knight,
Minnie Riperton,
Shuggie Otis,
Slick Rick,
T. Rex,
The Cowsills,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Cameo,
Underground Resistance,
Siglo XX,
LL Cool J,
The Blackbyrds,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Archie Shepp,
Easy Going,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Blossom Toes,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Scan 7,
The Offenders,
Henry Cow,
The Angels of Light,
The Gladiators,
Eric Copeland,
Jimmy McGriff,
X-Ray Spex,
Grey Daturas,
Man Parrish,
Girls At Our Best!,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Dave Gahan,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Can,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Rekid,
Sun City Girls,
David Axelrod,
Sandy B,
Lyres,
The Vogues,
Fluxion,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Dorothy Ashby,
Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot.
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.