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 Rwanda and from Cairo.
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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 organ 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 Wally Richardson to the electroclash 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 Gary Puckett & The Union Gap. All the underground hits.
All The Music Machine tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Althea and Donna 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kurtis Blow record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jeff Lynne,
Letta Mbulu,
Skaos,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Quantec,
The Gun Club,
Nick Fraelich,
the Swans,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Scientists,
Ludus,
Wasted Youth,
Khruangbin,
Second Layer,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
A Certain Ratio,
The Golliwogs,
The Grass Roots,
Connie Case,
David Axelrod,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Albert Ayler,
B.T. Express,
Aloha Tigers,
Bobby Byrd,
Roger Hodgson,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Brothers Johnson,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Star Department,
Cluster,
The Doors,
Crooked Eye,
Rod Modell,
F. McDonald,
Cecil Taylor,
The J.B.'s,
Kerri Chandler,
Funkadelic,
Avey Tare,
Robert Görl,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Howard Jones,
The Cowsills,
Sonic Youth,
Ronnie Foster,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Throbbing Gristle,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Todd Terry,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Gichy Dan,
The Knickerbockers,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Glenn Branca,
Lou Christie,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Martian,
The Real Kids,
Funky Four + One,
Moby Grape, Moby Grape, Moby Grape, Moby Grape.
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.