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 Jordan and from Toronto.
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 1966 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Doobie Brothers to the dance kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Wire. All the underground hits.
All Amazonics tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Barbara Tucker record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Boogie Down Productions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter and Kerry,
Eli Mardock,
Bobby Byrd,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Youth Brigade,
Hot Snakes,
Tears for Fears,
Television Personalities,
The Walker Brothers,
Whodini,
The Toasters,
The Smoke,
Country Teasers,
Urselle,
Lou Christie,
Tommy Roe,
Chrome,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Pierre Henry,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Robert Hood,
Moby Grape,
New Order,
Bobby Sherman,
Little Man,
John Coltrane,
Bootsy Collins,
New Age Steppers,
Nas,
Public Enemy,
Altered Images,
Dennis Brown,
Dave Gahan,
Blake Baxter,
Chris & Cosey,
Mars,
The Gap Band,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Basic Channel,
the Human League,
Roxette,
Isaac Hayes,
Flipper,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Marine Girls,
Brick,
Dead Boys,
The Mummies,
MDC,
Alison Limerick,
Neil Young,
The Grass Roots,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Inner City,
Minnie Riperton,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
World's Most,
the Swans,
Mark Hollis, Mark Hollis, Mark Hollis, Mark Hollis.
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.