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 Poland and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 theremin 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 Qualms to the grime kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Cybotron. All the underground hits.
All Neu! tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Thompson Twins record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mary Jane Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The United States of America,
Drive Like Jehu,
New York Dolls,
Shuggie Otis,
Pharoah Sanders,
Electric Prunes,
Make Up,
Leonard Cohen,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Visage,
The Seeds,
The Doobie Brothers,
CMW,
Bronski Beat,
The Litter,
The Remains,
Gerry Rafferty,
Faraquet,
the Slits,
F. McDonald,
Brand Nubian,
Massinfluence,
Reagan Youth,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Icehouse,
Bobby Sherman,
Amon Düül,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Michelle Simonal,
Television,
T.S.O.L.,
the Fania All-Stars,
OOIOO,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Smoke,
Underground Resistance,
Ronnie Foster,
EPMD,
The Martian,
Wire,
The Smiths,
New Age Steppers,
La Düsseldorf,
Robert Hood,
The Dead C,
Sarah Menescal,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Gang of Four,
KRS-One,
The Fall,
Gang Gang Dance,
Max Romeo,
Ornette Coleman,
Curtis Mayfield,
Alphaville,
PIL,
Buzzcocks,
Swell Maps,
Con Funk Shun,
Prince Buster, Prince Buster, Prince Buster, Prince Buster.
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.