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 Chad and from Tehran.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Delhi.
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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Shoche to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Thinking Fellers Union Local 282. All the underground hits.
All Scientists tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 an oboe and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Young Rascals record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
New Age Steppers,
Bronski Beat,
D'Angelo,
Derrick May,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
John Holt,
Sam Rivers,
the Germs,
Patti Smith,
Mark Hollis,
Monolake,
Roxette,
Chris Corsano,
Judy Mowatt,
Skriet,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Pagans,
Sarah Menescal,
The Birthday Party,
Crooked Eye,
Soft Cell,
Lindisfarne,
Lungfish,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Joensuu 1685,
Jacob Miller,
Alphaville,
Subhumans,
Crispy Ambulance,
Talk Talk,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Harmonia,
The Techniques,
Neu!,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Excepter,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Toni Rubio,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Aloha Tigers,
Barrington Levy,
Rotary Connection,
Amazonics,
Tommy Roe,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Barracudas,
Faraquet,
Ultra Naté,
Au Pairs,
Bob Dylan,
Symarip,
The Invisible,
CMW,
The Monochrome Set,
Tim Buckley,
Blancmange, Blancmange, Blancmange, Blancmange.
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.