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 Qatar and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 theremin 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 Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz to the techno 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 Dorothy Ashby. All the underground hits.
All Eve St. Jones tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Gun Club 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Association record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Q and Not U,
Kaleidoscope,
Fad Gadget,
The Toasters,
Pagans,
Glambeats Corp.,
Brothers Johnson,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Ornette Coleman,
Agent Orange,
Pantaleimon,
The Cure,
Mission of Burma,
Sister Nancy,
Eric Dolphy,
Agitation Free,
The Monochrome Set,
Parry Music,
Black Pus,
Glenn Branca,
Bronski Beat,
The United States of America,
Graham Central Station,
Freddie Wadling,
Rosa Yemen,
Connie Case,
Niagra,
The Associates,
The Count Five,
Bizarre Inc.,
JFA,
Model 500,
The Selecter,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
X-102,
Danielle Patucci,
Alton Ellis,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Howard Jones,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Scientists,
Franke,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Marmalade,
Los Fastidios,
Toni Rubio,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Ituana,
The Moody Blues,
kango's stein massive,
Gang Green,
Gichy Dan,
Junior Murvin,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Detroit Cobras,
Alison Limerick,
Brass Construction,
Gil Scott Heron,
Black Bananas,
Pet Shop Boys,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Martian,
Bobby Hutcherson, Bobby Hutcherson, Bobby Hutcherson, Bobby Hutcherson.
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.