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 Congo and from Bremen.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 mellotron 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 OOIOO to the funk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Radio Birdman. All the underground hits.
All Amon Düül tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bauhaus record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aloha Tigers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Moby Grape,
the Soft Cell,
The Sound,
Masters at Work,
Shuggie Otis,
Archie Shepp,
Negative Approach,
Roy Ayers,
Drive Like Jehu,
Technova,
Terry Callier,
Ultra Naté,
MC5,
The Cure,
The Searchers,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Frankie Knuckles,
Amazonics,
Juan Atkins,
FM Einheit,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The New Christs,
Stereo Dub,
Ralphi Rosario,
Letta Mbulu,
Erasure,
the Fania All-Stars,
Cybotron,
Half Japanese,
Model 500,
The Busters,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Andrew Hill,
Faraquet,
Sarah Menescal,
World's Most,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Derrick Morgan,
The Shadows of Knight,
Charles Mingus,
Judy Mowatt,
Sister Nancy,
Girls At Our Best!,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Buzzcocks,
Scion,
Country Teasers,
8 Eyed Spy,
Accadde A,
the Sonics,
Procol Harum,
Oneida,
Soul II Soul,
Dave Gahan,
Lungfish,
The Litter,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Youth Brigade,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Residents,
Scratch Acid, Scratch Acid, Scratch Acid, Scratch Acid.
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.