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 Georgia and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 arpeggiator 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 Absolute Body Control 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 Graham Central Station. All the underground hits.
All Organ tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Organ record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Normal,
Pylon,
John Holt,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Moleskins,
Jimmy McGriff,
Groovy Waters,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Detroit Cobras,
Moby Grape,
the Bar-Kays,
Dave Gahan,
Masters at Work,
ABC,
Royal Trux,
8 Eyed Spy,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Harry Pussy,
Silicon Teens,
Curtis Mayfield,
Yaz,
The Slackers,
Ornette Coleman,
Lalann,
David McCallum,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
ABBA,
The Martian,
Trumans Water,
Howard Jones,
Roxette,
Minor Threat,
the Association,
Yazoo,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Sandy B,
DJ Sneak,
Crispian St. Peters,
Sonic Youth,
Dawn Penn,
Lakeside,
Thee Headcoats,
Sun Ra,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Nils Olav,
the Slits,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Fluxion,
David Axelrod,
The Associates,
Amon Düül II,
The Offenders,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Blake Baxter,
Main Source,
The Gladiators,
David Bowie,
Leonard Cohen,
Camberwell Now, Camberwell Now, Camberwell Now, Camberwell Now.
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.