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 Russia and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 Donald Fagen 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 Oneida to the funk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Urselle. All the underground hits.
All The Blackbyrds tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Major Organ And The Adding Machine record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gary Puckett & The Union Gap record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fela Kuti,
John Coltrane,
The Shadows of Knight,
the Swans,
Ronnie Foster,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Radiohead,
MDC,
The Electric Prunes,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Seeds,
Rakim,
Radiopuhelimet,
Barrington Levy,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Banda Bassotti,
The J.B.'s,
Metal Thangz,
Lungfish,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Blackbyrds,
Piero Umiliani,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Neil Young,
Reagan Youth,
Quantec,
Dennis Brown,
Skriet,
The Barracudas,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Star Department,
The Invisible,
Avey Tare,
Guru Guru,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Techniques,
Dual Sessions,
Funkadelic,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
In Retrospect,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Cecil Taylor,
Stiv Bators,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Girls At Our Best!,
Half Japanese,
Electric Prunes,
Neu!,
Warsaw,
Soulsonic Force,
Matthew Halsall,
the Normal,
Bizarre Inc.,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Popol Vuh,
Nation of Ulysses,
Franke,
Dorothy Ashby,
Pierre Henry,
Rekid,
Soul Sonic Force,
Johnny Osbourne,
Soft Cell, Soft Cell, Soft Cell, Soft Cell.
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.