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 Indonesia and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 guitar 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 Bronski Beat 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 Eurythmics. All the underground hits.
All Steve Hackett tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Country Teasers 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Human League record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Schoolly D,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Angels of Light,
X-Ray Spex,
Outsiders,
Matthew Bourne,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Anthony Braxton,
Ossler,
This Heat,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Das Ding,
Black Sheep,
Tom Boy,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Skriet,
Isaac Hayes,
Scrapy,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Moby Grape,
Bronski Beat,
Kerri Chandler,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Funky Four + One,
Cymande,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Tim Buckley,
Banda Bassotti,
Mandrill,
Black Bananas,
Robert Wyatt,
Ten City,
Rod Modell,
Technova,
Vladislav Delay,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
New Age Steppers,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Leaves,
The Wake,
Crispy Ambulance,
Yusef Lateef,
Adolescents,
Patti Smith,
Pylon,
Jeff Lynne,
Alton Ellis,
Eddi Front,
Radiohead,
The Gories,
Warren Ellis,
the Fania All-Stars,
John Coltrane,
Man Eating Sloth,
Warsaw,
Aloha Tigers,
Eric Copeland,
K-Klass,
Dave Gahan,
The Invisible,
Robert Hood,
Kool Moe Dee,
Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685.
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.