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 Armenia and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 Holger Czukay 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 Quantec to the disco 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 The Misunderstood. All the underground hits.
All Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Unrelated Segments record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 a rhodes and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Groovy Waters,
Nik Kershaw,
The Fire Engines,
Dual Sessions,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Walker Brothers,
Tres Demented,
The Modern Lovers,
The Associates,
Deadbeat,
Minnie Riperton,
Kerrie Biddell,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Depeche Mode,
Pantytec,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Pretty Things,
the Swans,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Isaac Hayes,
Sound Behaviour,
Agitation Free,
Mark Hollis,
X-102,
Lee Hazlewood,
These Immortal Souls,
Oblivians,
Sun Ra,
Porter Ricks,
Fat Boys,
Lebanon Hanover,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Dave Gahan,
The Gories,
Nick Fraelich,
Reuben Wilson,
Joensuu 1685,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Moby Grape,
Crime,
The Move,
Tim Buckley,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Human League,
Adolescents,
Jimmy McGriff,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Crispian St. Peters,
Brass Construction,
A Certain Ratio,
Ronan,
Kayak,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Moody Blues,
The Mummies,
Duran Duran,
Rosa Yemen,
Robert Hood,
Pulsallama,
Shuggie Otis,
The Black Dice,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience.
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.