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 Pakistan 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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 organ 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 Bobby Sherman to the grime kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Scratch Acid. All the underground hits.
All Johnny Osbourne tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every MDC 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Janne Schatter record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bobby Womack,
Sun Ra,
Rhythm & Sound,
Scion,
Cybotron,
Hasil Adkins,
In Retrospect,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Glambeats Corp.,
Frankie Knuckles,
Crooked Eye,
Aswad,
Warsaw,
Moebius,
FM Einheit,
The Young Rascals,
DJ Sneak,
Livin' Joy,
Warren Ellis,
Michelle Simonal,
Dawn Penn,
The Blackbyrds,
The Smoke,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Godley & Creme,
Gang Green,
John Foxx,
The Skatalites,
The Smiths,
Bill Near,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Invisible,
Vainqueur,
Country Teasers,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Residents,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Crash Course in Science,
The Gories,
Jeff Lynne,
Mo-Dettes,
The Fall,
John Lydon,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Bobby Sherman,
Sam Rivers,
Faraquet,
Agent Orange,
Mary Jane Girls,
Ituana,
U.S. Maple,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Barrington Levy,
Glenn Branca,
Todd Terry,
CMW,
Derrick May,
Boredoms,
Circle Jerks,
The Stooges,
Pylon,
Fatback Band,
Josef K, Josef K, Josef K, Josef K.
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.