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 Somalia and from Paris.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Gary Puckett & The Union Gap to the grunge 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All The Searchers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bad Manners 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kool G Rap & DJ Polo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare 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?
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Terry Callier,
Ronnie Foster,
Junior Murvin,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Lindisfarne,
Babytalk,
Circle Jerks,
Con Funk Shun,
Black Moon,
Skarface,
The Fugs,
Aloha Tigers,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Joe Finger,
kango's stein massive,
Pussy Galore,
Arab on Radar,
The Barracudas,
Zapp,
The Fall,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Knickerbockers,
The Blackbyrds,
Tubeway Army,
The Seeds,
Juan Atkins,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Rekid,
JFA,
Wally Richardson,
Livin' Joy,
Pere Ubu,
Freddie Wadling,
Crime,
Bang On A Can,
Throbbing Gristle,
Roxette,
Pierre Henry,
Parry Music,
The Wake,
Hashim,
Ten City,
Spandau Ballet,
Bronski Beat,
Suicide,
Johnny Clarke,
Pylon,
Glenn Branca,
cv313,
Radiohead,
Adolescents,
Erykah Badu,
The Toasters,
The Saints,
The Residents,
Aural Exciters,
Desert Stars,
The Offenders,
Ludus,
Matthew Halsall,
Ossler,
Roger Hodgson, Roger Hodgson, Roger Hodgson, Roger Hodgson.
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.