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 Marshall Islands and from Accra.
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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Technova to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Sun City Girls. All the underground hits.
All KRS-One tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 rhodes and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ultravox record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sunsets and Hearts,
Wally Richardson,
Cameo,
A Certain Ratio,
Eden Ahbez,
Eric Copeland,
Soulsonic Force,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Fuzztones,
Amazonics,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Hasil Adkins,
Masters at Work,
Jeff Lynne,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Slits,
The Pop Group,
Arab on Radar,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Susan Cadogan,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Q65,
Dead Boys,
FM Einheit,
Delon & Dalcan,
Vladislav Delay,
The Dave Clark Five,
Juan Atkins,
Essential Logic,
The Electric Prunes,
Prince Buster,
Pierre Henry,
Neil Young,
The Toasters,
James White and The Blacks,
Sex Pistols,
Judy Mowatt,
Pet Shop Boys,
Black Pus,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Drexciya,
Suburban Knight,
Nick Fraelich,
Television Personalities,
Popol Vuh,
The Real Kids,
Barclay James Harvest,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Idris Muhammad,
Roy Ayers,
Scientists,
AZ,
The Smiths,
Flamin' Groovies,
David Axelrod,
Nik Kershaw,
Jacob Miller,
New York Dolls, New York Dolls, New York Dolls, New York Dolls.
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.