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 Honduras and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 rhodes 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 The Young Rascals to the dance kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 La Düsseldorf. All the underground hits.
All Jimmy McGriff tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Freddie Wadling 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Matthew Bourne record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Quando Quango,
Neu!,
Marmalade,
The Gap Band,
The Doors,
Radio Birdman,
Amazonics,
Wasted Youth,
Inner City,
New Order,
World's Most,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Rites of Spring,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Stooges,
Ultravox,
Gichy Dan,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Reuben Wilson,
Roy Ayers,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Can,
Mark Hollis,
Kevin Saunderson,
Alice Coltrane,
Arthur Verocai,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Schoolly D,
Brass Construction,
Banda Bassotti,
The Index,
The Grass Roots,
Duran Duran,
Wire,
Brothers Johnson,
Sarah Menescal,
The Skatalites,
Funkadelic,
Bauhaus,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Visage,
Sound Behaviour,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Nik Kershaw,
Japan,
Charles Mingus,
Bizarre Inc.,
Skaos,
The Offenders,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Matthew Bourne,
CMW,
Blossom Toes,
Saccharine Trust,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
John Lydon,
Iggy Pop,
Sonic Youth,
Bronski Beat,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Dirtbombs, The Dirtbombs, The Dirtbombs, The Dirtbombs.
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.