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 Kenya and from Tokyo.
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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Massinfluence to the grime kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Pantaleimon. All the underground hits.
All Be Bop Deluxe tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every June of 44 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Agitation Free record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Fluxion,
Yellowson,
La Düsseldorf,
Cheater Slicks,
Rod Modell,
Eurythmics,
Robert Görl,
Alison Limerick,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Crispy Ambulance,
Niagra,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Average White Band,
Janne Schatter,
Simply Red,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Throbbing Gristle,
Wings,
Depeche Mode,
Kenny Larkin,
The Fire Engines,
Ronan,
One Last Wish,
Dave Gahan,
Kurtis Blow,
Royal Trux,
Rapeman,
The Wake,
Joe Finger,
The Monochrome Set,
Marc Almond,
Nico,
Bluetip,
The Happenings,
Lou Christie,
Lindisfarne,
Lightning Bolt,
Trumans Water,
Mo-Dettes,
Black Moon,
Kas Product,
Grandmaster Flash,
Laurel Aitken,
Harmonia,
Soft Machine,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Mary Jane Girls,
Country Teasers,
Porter Ricks,
Susan Cadogan,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Zero Boys,
Popol Vuh,
The Velvet Underground,
Desert Stars,
Gastr Del Sol,
The United States of America,
Minor Threat,
48th St. Collective,
Ohio Players,
Mandrill, Mandrill, Mandrill, Mandrill.
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.