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 Liberia and from Bologna.
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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Notorious Big And Bone Thugs to the dance kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Dave Clark Five. All the underground hits.
All Godley & Creme tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sly & The Family Stone record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Curtis Mayfield,
Ronan,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Moby Grape,
The Cure,
Section 25,
Mantronix,
Khruangbin,
Chrome,
Blancmange,
Panda Bear,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
La Düsseldorf,
L. Decosne,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Vogues,
David Axelrod,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Buckinghams,
The Count Five,
Jeru the Damaja,
Subhumans,
Nick Fraelich,
Al Stewart,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Gladiators,
Roy Ayers,
The Toasters,
Black Moon,
Rites of Spring,
Rod Modell,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Scientists,
The Electric Prunes,
The Evens,
Jeff Lynne,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Siglo XX,
Carl Craig,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Blues Magoos,
Hardrive,
Qualms,
Black Sheep,
The Velvet Underground,
One Last Wish,
Banda Bassotti,
Lalo Schifrin,
Derrick May,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Bronski Beat,
LL Cool J,
China Crisis,
Angry Samoans,
Soft Machine,
Hoover,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
ABC,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Harmonia,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Swell Maps, Swell Maps, Swell Maps, Swell Maps.
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.