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 United Kingdom and from Copenhagen.
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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Roger Hodgson to the techno kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Funkadelic. All the underground hits.
All Joyce Sims tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Dave Clark Five record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Harmonia,
The Red Krayola,
Black Moon,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Buzzcocks,
the Association,
Dark Day,
Archie Shepp,
Alton Ellis,
Gang Gang Dance,
Model 500,
Yusef Lateef,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
D'Angelo,
The Fire Engines,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Gichy Dan,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Bobby Hutcherson,
OOIOO,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Television,
Dave Gahan,
The Monochrome Set,
Lucky Dragons,
Rotary Connection,
LL Cool J,
The Young Rascals,
The Associates,
Sandy B,
Wally Richardson,
Ultravox,
PIL,
Rhythm & Sound,
Godley & Creme,
Flamin' Groovies,
Yaz,
Scratch Acid,
Public Image Ltd.,
Derrick Morgan,
The Gories,
Johnny Osbourne,
Matthew Halsall,
Eric B and Rakim,
Joyce Sims,
Jacob Miller,
Sällskapet,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
UT,
The United States of America,
The Buckinghams,
Carl Craig,
The Blues Magoos,
Tears for Fears,
Terrestrial Tones,
Radio Birdman,
Basic Channel,
Black Flag,
Rufus Thomas, Rufus Thomas, Rufus Thomas, Rufus Thomas.
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.