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 Palau and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 rhodes 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 Funkadelic to the grime kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Joy Division. All the underground hits.
All Flash Fearless tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Neil Young & Crazy Horse 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Zapp record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lalann,
Bobby Womack,
Arcadia,
R.M.O.,
Dawn Penn,
The Fugs,
Second Layer,
Iggy Pop,
John Coltrane,
Rites of Spring,
Aloha Tigers,
Max Romeo,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Standells,
B.T. Express,
Camouflage,
EPMD,
Newcleus,
MDC,
the Human League,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Amon Düül II,
Darondo,
Bill Wells,
Boz Scaggs,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Smog,
Rapeman,
Technova,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Model 500,
Ludus,
The Count Five,
Sex Pistols,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
X-Ray Spex,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Gap Band,
Sound Behaviour,
Khruangbin,
Eve St. Jones,
X-102,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Kevin Saunderson,
The Doors,
Marvin Gaye,
Talk Talk,
Crooked Eye,
Funky Four + One,
Maleditus Sound,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Gregory Isaacs,
Jeff Mills,
Mandrill,
The Modern Lovers,
Whodini,
Bob Dylan,
The Busters,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Letta Mbulu,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.