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 Bahrain and from Manila.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the sitar 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 Slick Rick to the techno 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 Mark Hollis. All the underground hits.
All The Barracudas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Crime 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Q and Not U record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Amon Düül,
Aaron Thompson,
Von Mondo,
The Dead C,
Jerry's Kids,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Kayak,
The Seeds,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Todd Terry,
Echospace,
Guru Guru,
Scott Walker,
The Raincoats,
Tubeway Army,
Sarah Menescal,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Robert Hood,
Idris Muhammad,
Darondo,
Dave Gahan,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Stooges,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Wolf Eyes,
Bronski Beat,
The Fall,
The Knickerbockers,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Monochrome Set,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Minnie Riperton,
The Wake,
Rotary Connection,
Connie Case,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Doors,
Juan Atkins,
Stiv Bators,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Icehouse,
The Fortunes,
Rapeman,
The Gun Club,
Joensuu 1685,
Ken Boothe,
Ultravox,
Outsiders,
In Retrospect,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
48th St. Collective,
Bobby Womack,
Dead Boys,
The Gories,
Janne Schatter,
Skriet,
Essential Logic,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Oblivians,
The Barracudas,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Cybotron,
Curtis Mayfield, Curtis Mayfield, Curtis Mayfield, Curtis Mayfield.
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.