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 Nepal and from Houston.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 harpsichord 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 Dennis Brown to the rap 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 Black Bananas. All the underground hits.
All Susan Cadogan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a KRS-One record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Quantec,
Loose Ends,
Hoover,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Dirtbombs,
Quadrant,
The Fall,
Harmonia,
The Toasters,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Camberwell Now,
Sight & Sound,
Little Man,
Mr. Review,
Aural Exciters,
Brothers Johnson,
Ronan,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Velvet Underground,
E-Dancer,
Bobby Womack,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Gories,
Dead Boys,
Alton Ellis,
The Trojans,
ABC,
The Grass Roots,
Radiopuhelimet,
Byron Stingily,
Max Romeo,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Golliwogs,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Yaz,
Ossler,
Jimmy McGriff,
Johnny Osbourne,
Minny Pops,
Fatback Band,
Bob Dylan,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Das Ding,
Angry Samoans,
D'Angelo,
Symarip,
Easy Going,
The Raincoats,
Lee Hazlewood,
Davy DMX,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Absolute Body Control,
Maleditus Sound,
The Buckinghams,
the Fania All-Stars,
Liliput,
Pet Shop Boys,
Erasure, Erasure, Erasure, Erasure.
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.