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 Uganda and from Lyon.
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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 spring reverb 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 Larry & the Blue Notes to the funk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Bizarre Inc.. All the underground hits.
All Thee Headcoats tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gichy Dan 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun City Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Electric Prunes,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Yusef Lateef,
The Fuzztones,
Johnny Clarke,
The Neon Judgement,
The J.B.'s,
Scion,
Stiv Bators,
Parry Music,
Barrington Levy,
Camouflage,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
DJ Sneak,
Duran Duran,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Sixth Finger,
The Invisible,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
MDC,
The Fire Engines,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Television,
The Moody Blues,
Lee Hazlewood,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Wire,
Ronnie Foster,
Scientists,
Malaria!,
FM Einheit,
Hoover,
Donny Hathaway,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Joe Smooth,
The Happenings,
The Black Dice,
The Trojans,
The Kinks,
Iggy Pop,
The Angels of Light,
Silicon Teens,
Throbbing Gristle,
Eric Dolphy,
Faust,
Mary Jane Girls,
Q and Not U,
Shoche,
Saccharine Trust,
Danielle Patucci,
Flash Fearless,
Cameo,
Minor Threat,
The Slits,
Leonard Cohen,
June of 44,
Cal Tjader,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
the Soft Cell,
Jesper Dahlback, Jesper Dahlback, Jesper Dahlback, Jesper Dahlback.
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.