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 Guyana and from Columbus.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Rotary Connection to the techno 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 Rufus Thomas. All the underground hits.
All UT tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hardrive 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Minor Threat record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Banda Bassotti,
Janne Schatter,
Carl Craig,
Agent Orange,
Roxette,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Bobby Womack,
Gong,
Moebius,
Public Image Ltd.,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Human League,
Simply Red,
R.M.O.,
Deepchord,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Count Five,
In Retrospect,
X-101,
New York Dolls,
The Modern Lovers,
Gang Green,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Skarface,
Hot Snakes,
The Victims,
Second Layer,
Cluster,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
the Bar-Kays,
The Gun Club,
Nico,
Boogie Down Productions,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Toni Rubio,
Derrick May,
Faust,
8 Eyed Spy,
Glenn Branca,
Lalo Schifrin,
the Fania All-Stars,
David Axelrod,
Graham Central Station,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
T. Rex,
The Last Poets,
Easy Going,
The Happenings,
New Age Steppers,
Trumans Water,
Dawn Penn,
The Busters,
The Monochrome Set,
Agitation Free,
Malaria!,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Nas,
Soul Sonic Force,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Martian,
Spandau Ballet, Spandau Ballet, Spandau Ballet, Spandau Ballet.
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.