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 Spain and from Columbus.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 synthesizer 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 rock 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 Von Mondo. All the underground hits.
All Porter Ricks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Index record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 harpsichord and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Velvet Underground record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Swans,
X-101,
Khruangbin,
Mo-Dettes,
Mars,
Marcia Griffiths,
Jawbox,
Idris Muhammad,
Motorama,
Supertramp,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Bush Tetras,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Ralphi Rosario,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Black Flag,
Shuggie Otis,
Neil Young,
Roxy Music,
Susan Cadogan,
Basic Channel,
The Cramps,
Toni Rubio,
A Certain Ratio,
Pole,
Oblivians,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Connie Case,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Morten Harket,
The Pop Group,
Scratch Acid,
Iggy Pop,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Fugs,
Terry Callier,
The Real Kids,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Fire Engines,
Dennis Brown,
Au Pairs,
Agitation Free,
T.S.O.L.,
Ultravox,
The Dirtbombs,
B.T. Express,
Throbbing Gristle,
Max Romeo,
Silicon Teens,
UT,
The Gun Club,
Neu!,
Funkadelic,
Bootsy Collins,
Outsiders,
Trumans Water,
Grandmaster Flash,
Babytalk,
Eden Ahbez,
The Kinks,
Tears for Fears,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Fuzztones, The Fuzztones, The Fuzztones, The Fuzztones.
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.