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 Estonia and from Columbus.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 güiro 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 Yaz to the grunge kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Massinfluence. All the underground hits.
All Blancmange tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Slackers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sight & Sound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Amazonics,
Todd Terry,
The Angels of Light,
Au Pairs,
Kayak,
Pulsallama,
Marc Almond,
Bush Tetras,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Mummies,
Tubeway Army,
Lou Reed,
Severed Heads,
Ronan,
Lower 48,
Public Image Ltd.,
Toni Rubio,
ABC,
The Smiths,
Sonny Sharrock,
Blake Baxter,
Sam Rivers,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Marvin Gaye,
The Kinks,
Tomorrow,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Can,
Echospace,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Zero Boys,
Trumans Water,
Essential Logic,
Rakim,
Slick Rick,
Pussy Galore,
Fela Kuti,
Marshall Jefferson,
Shoche,
The Motions,
Second Layer,
Mantronix,
Lalo Schifrin,
Schoolly D,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Soul II Soul,
Throbbing Gristle,
Camberwell Now,
Carl Craig,
Skaos,
Rotary Connection,
Ornette Coleman,
Black Moon,
Ken Boothe,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Big Daddy Kane,
Minnie Riperton,
Drexciya,
The Seeds,
Sarah Menescal,
Magazine,
The Pop Group, The Pop Group, The Pop Group, The Pop Group.
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.