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 Armenia and from Manila.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 snare 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 Black Moon to the rap kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Lee Hazlewood. All the underground hits.
All Section 25 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Count Five record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
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 The Monochrome Set record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tears for Fears,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Sonics,
The Slits,
Soulsonic Force,
James White and The Blacks,
Masters at Work,
Fat Boys,
Bizarre Inc.,
Archie Shepp,
Patti Smith,
Cheater Slicks,
The Trojans,
Skriet,
Johnny Osbourne,
Sparks,
The Birthday Party,
La Düsseldorf,
The Toasters,
The Martian,
Amazonics,
Echospace,
Matthew Bourne,
Groovy Waters,
Rites of Spring,
The United States of America,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Kaleidoscope,
The Buckinghams,
The Moleskins,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Main Source,
ABBA,
Shuggie Otis,
Morten Harket,
Excepter,
Crash Course in Science,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Silicon Teens,
T.S.O.L.,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Desert Stars,
Duran Duran,
Little Man,
Lebanon Hanover,
Von Mondo,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Dark Day,
Boogie Down Productions,
48th St. Collective,
Gabor Szabo,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Doobie Brothers,
kango's stein massive,
Dead Boys,
FM Einheit,
Ice-T,
Jesper Dahlback,
MC5,
Marmalade,
Soul II Soul, Soul II Soul, Soul II Soul, Soul II Soul.
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.