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 Mexico and from Winnipeg.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Juan Atkins to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish. All the underground hits.
All Charles Mingus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bronski Beat record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Piero Umiliani record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Von Mondo,
Arcadia,
Lakeside,
Skriet,
Lou Christie,
Ohio Players,
Dave Gahan,
Amazonics,
LL Cool J,
Half Japanese,
Pagans,
Hardrive,
Monolake,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Howard Jones,
Brand Nubian,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Sex Pistols,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Eurythmics,
Grandmaster Flash,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Durutti Column,
Sun Ra,
Crooked Eye,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Busters,
Guru Guru,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Donald Byrd,
Girls At Our Best!,
Pole,
This Heat,
Section 25,
B.T. Express,
Prince Buster,
Delta 5,
Anthony Braxton,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Peter & Gordon,
H. Thieme,
Lindisfarne,
The Skatalites,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Jacob Miller,
John Cale,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Shoche,
Q65,
Ken Boothe,
Bang On A Can,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Seeds,
The Searchers,
Tres Demented,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Gang Green,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Cheater Slicks,
Fear, Fear, Fear, Fear.
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.