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 Brazil and from Lyon.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 The Kinks 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 De La Soul & Jungle Brothers. All the underground hits.
All Flash Fearless tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Schoolly D record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Desert Stars,
The Doors,
Unrelated Segments,
The Barracudas,
Sun City Girls,
Donald Byrd,
Quando Quango,
The Sound,
Black Flag,
Q65,
Bill Wells,
Mark Hollis,
Nico,
Sparks,
Thee Headcoats,
Gang of Four,
Fad Gadget,
Eurythmics,
Alphaville,
Pagans,
Eric B and Rakim,
MDC,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Gap Band,
Country Teasers,
Peter and Kerry,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Agent Orange,
The Cure,
F. McDonald,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Neon Judgement,
Derrick Morgan,
ABBA,
Ultimate Spinach,
Deadbeat,
The Velvet Underground,
The Offenders,
Underground Resistance,
Bronski Beat,
Yusef Lateef,
Scion,
Brothers Johnson,
Public Image Ltd.,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Thompson Twins,
The Tremeloes,
Television Personalities,
Fluxion,
Janne Schatter,
The Searchers,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Sonic Youth,
Massinfluence,
Frankie Knuckles,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Whodini,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Kurtis Blow,
The Busters,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Rhythim Is Rhythim, Rhythim Is Rhythim, Rhythim Is Rhythim, Rhythim Is Rhythim.
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.