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 Mauritania and from Winnipeg.
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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Archie Shepp to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud. All the underground hits.
All Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Offenders 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Suburban Knight record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Y Pants,
E-Dancer,
The Count Five,
X-101,
Popol Vuh,
The Walker Brothers,
The Electric Prunes,
Sex Pistols,
Sandy B,
Alice Coltrane,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Soul Sonic Force,
Lebanon Hanover,
Delon & Dalcan,
a-ha,
Arab on Radar,
Traffic Nightmare,
Electric Prunes,
Matthew Halsall,
New Age Steppers,
Kas Product,
Symarip,
The Sound,
Dawn Penn,
Excepter,
Sexual Harrassment,
Sonic Youth,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Nirvana,
Delta 5,
The Fortunes,
Magma,
the Soft Cell,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Monochrome Set,
The Toasters,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Pagans,
T. Rex,
Scion,
Barclay James Harvest,
Rites of Spring,
Lightning Bolt,
The Cure,
UT,
Throbbing Gristle,
Byron Stingily,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Buckinghams,
Connie Case,
Dave Gahan,
Livin' Joy,
Jawbox,
Sister Nancy,
Ken Boothe,
Darondo,
Grauzone,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Suburban Knight,
Sun Ra,
Al Stewart,
Mo-Dettes,
Matthew Bourne, Matthew Bourne, Matthew Bourne, Matthew Bourne.
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.