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 Belize and from Jakarta.
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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Lizzy Mercier Descloux to the punk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Todd Rundgren. All the underground hits.
All JFA tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Jesus and Mary Chain record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 mellotron and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soulsonic Force record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gerry Rafferty,
Rites of Spring,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Eddi Front,
The Standells,
Soul II Soul,
Pylon,
Todd Terry,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Neon Judgement,
Audionom,
X-Ray Spex,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Jeff Lynne,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
MC5,
Deadbeat,
Gang Gang Dance,
Black Flag,
Erasure,
Cheater Slicks,
Yaz,
Joe Smooth,
Judy Mowatt,
the Sonics,
Iggy Pop,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
New Order,
Television,
Second Layer,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Slits,
Throbbing Gristle,
Piero Umiliani,
In Retrospect,
K-Klass,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Mission of Burma,
The Selecter,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Lalo Schifrin,
Intrusion,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Al Stewart,
The Cure,
Young Marble Giants,
Robert Görl,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Last Poets,
Erykah Badu,
Flipper,
Bobby Hutcherson,
X-102,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Freddie Wadling,
Lebanon Hanover,
DNA,
The Black Dice,
Dave Gahan,
Faraquet,
Kerrie Biddell, Kerrie Biddell, Kerrie Biddell, Kerrie Biddell.
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.