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 Madagascar and from Hong Kong.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Harpers Bizarre to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 The Gories. All the underground hits.
All Masters at Work tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Brothers Johnson 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Louis and Bebe Barron record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bizarre Inc.,
Erykah Badu,
Girls At Our Best!,
Eli Mardock,
F. McDonald,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Sonny Sharrock,
the Soft Cell,
Soul Sonic Force,
Kevin Saunderson,
the Germs,
Sandy B,
Aswad,
Buzzcocks,
Flamin' Groovies,
Grauzone,
DJ Style,
Oblivians,
John Coltrane,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Ken Boothe,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Byron Stingily,
The Fortunes,
Boz Scaggs,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Maurizio,
Amazonics,
Livin' Joy,
The Knickerbockers,
Neu!,
The Dave Clark Five,
Bluetip,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Divine Comedy,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Sonics,
Cymande,
Gabor Szabo,
Panda Bear,
The Electric Prunes,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Zero Boys,
a-ha,
Lebanon Hanover,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Essential Logic,
Maleditus Sound,
Scientists,
Excepter,
The Invisible,
MC5,
Lou Christie,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Bad Manners,
The Black Dice,
Lakeside,
DNA,
Tomorrow,
Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids.
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.