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 Uruguay and from Delhi.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 Nile Rodgers 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 Sad Lovers and Giants to the funk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Art Ensemble Of Chicago. All the underground hits.
All Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lou Reed & Metallica record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Count Five,
Johnny Clarke,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Bad Manners,
Albert Ayler,
The Motions,
Johnny Osbourne,
Bill Wells,
The Seeds,
The Star Department,
The Divine Comedy,
Joyce Sims,
Trumans Water,
Scan 7,
Minutemen,
The Barracudas,
Derrick Morgan,
The Dave Clark Five,
One Last Wish,
Joy Division,
The Five Americans,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
ABC,
Bauhaus,
Funkadelic,
Jacob Miller,
X-102,
Slick Rick,
Organ,
Faraquet,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Swans,
Bobby Womack,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Youth Brigade,
Godley & Creme,
Roger Hodgson,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Steve Hackett,
Second Layer,
Liliput,
LL Cool J,
Malaria!,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Kerri Chandler,
Parry Music,
Peter & Gordon,
Con Funk Shun,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Colin Newman,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Technova,
The Blackbyrds,
The Stooges,
Simply Red,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Magma,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Misunderstood, The Misunderstood, The Misunderstood, The Misunderstood.
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.