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 Algeria 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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Crime to the funk 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 cv313. All the underground hits.
All The Doobie Brothers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every John Coltrane 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mo-Dettes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Saints,
The Selecter,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Ken Boothe,
Sonny Sharrock,
Aswad,
Animal Collective,
Arab on Radar,
The Moleskins,
Nick Fraelich,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
10cc,
Y Pants,
Stockholm Monsters,
Visage,
AZ,
Malaria!,
Jerry's Kids,
Liliput,
Sonic Youth,
Albert Ayler,
The Real Kids,
Fat Boys,
Reuben Wilson,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Con Funk Shun,
Cabaret Voltaire,
David McCallum,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Easy Going,
Davy DMX,
Pylon,
The Martian,
the Germs,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
X-101,
Joe Smooth,
Japan,
Joyce Sims,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Surgeon,
The Doors,
Sugar Minott,
The Velvet Underground,
The Red Krayola,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The J.B.'s,
Idris Muhammad,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Eurythmics,
Scott Walker,
Sarah Menescal,
Blancmange,
Deepchord,
Camouflage,
Pet Shop Boys,
Blossom Toes,
Brass Construction,
The Slackers,
Suburban Knight,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.