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 New Zealand and from Bremen.
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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 linndrum 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 Blancmange to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 The Golliwogs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Angels of Light record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Seeds record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Half Japanese,
Bluetip,
Scan 7,
Bronski Beat,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Amon Düül II,
Vainqueur,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Kaleidoscope,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
John Lydon,
The Moleskins,
Tim Buckley,
Royal Trux,
Severed Heads,
The Red Krayola,
Wolf Eyes,
The Residents,
PIL,
the Slits,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Flipper,
The Star Department,
Deadbeat,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Mission of Burma,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Niagra,
The Names,
The Gap Band,
The Saints,
The Pop Group,
Boz Scaggs,
Sarah Menescal,
Terry Callier,
Ice-T,
Masters at Work,
AZ,
Wally Richardson,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Man Parrish,
MDC,
Joe Finger,
Clear Light,
Cymande,
Gregory Isaacs,
Scott Walker,
The Angels of Light,
The Wake,
Cal Tjader,
Unwound,
Eric B and Rakim,
Alison Limerick,
Marine Girls,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Amazonics,
10cc,
Radiopuhelimet,
Eddi Front,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.