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 France and from Johannesburg.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog to the electroclash kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Quando Quango. All the underground hits.
All Kurtis Blow tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Chrome record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Golliwogs,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Tim Buckley,
PIL,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Ornette Coleman,
Tubeway Army,
The Pretty Things,
Rites of Spring,
Mission of Burma,
The Star Department,
Minnie Riperton,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Laurel Aitken,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Gastr Del Sol,
Dead Boys,
Wings,
The Martian,
Lebanon Hanover,
the Association,
Letta Mbulu,
Half Japanese,
Dual Sessions,
Alison Limerick,
Neu!,
Johnny Clarke,
The Leaves,
Vainqueur,
John Foxx,
Bob Dylan,
Blancmange,
D'Angelo,
Davy DMX,
Slave,
U.S. Maple,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Neon Judgement,
Pagans,
Flamin' Groovies,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Godley & Creme,
Second Layer,
Moebius,
The Flesh Eaters,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Marmalade,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Happenings,
Michelle Simonal,
Joensuu 1685,
Roy Ayers,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Nils Olav,
These Immortal Souls,
Harmonia,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Visage,
Public Image Ltd.,
Ice-T, Ice-T, Ice-T, Ice-T.
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.