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 Korea North and from Shanghai.
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 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 linndrum 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 Grey Daturas to the disco 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 New Age Steppers. All the underground hits.
All Royal Trux 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 punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Harry Pussy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Laurel Aitken,
The Monks,
Banda Bassotti,
Isaac Hayes,
Brand Nubian,
Groovy Waters,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Skarface,
Massinfluence,
cv313,
Tears for Fears,
Slave,
The Sonics,
Don Cherry,
Arab on Radar,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Al Stewart,
Little Man,
Aloha Tigers,
Charles Mingus,
Crooked Eye,
Minnie Riperton,
The Barracudas,
LL Cool J,
Radio Birdman,
Clear Light,
Lebanon Hanover,
Newcleus,
Bootsy Collins,
Icehouse,
Can,
Throbbing Gristle,
Dennis Brown,
Kenny Larkin,
Porter Ricks,
Althea and Donna,
Bronski Beat,
Barrington Levy,
Derrick Morgan,
Scientists,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
FM Einheit,
The Cowsills,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
John Foxx,
Television,
The Toasters,
The Black Dice,
Toni Rubio,
Todd Rundgren,
Infiniti,
Crime,
Echospace,
Subhumans,
Marcia Griffiths,
Fad Gadget,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp..
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.