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 Niger and from Taipei.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Salvador.
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 Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Yusef Lateef to the funk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Siouxsie and the Banshees. All the underground hits.
All Ituana tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Monolake record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Mummies record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
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,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
PIL,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Lindisfarne,
Drexciya,
The New Christs,
Moebius,
Roxy Music,
Buzzcocks,
LL Cool J,
The Dead C,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Cure,
Magazine,
John Foxx,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Flesh Eaters,
R.M.O.,
Marc Almond,
Shoche,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Velvet Underground,
B.T. Express,
the Sonics,
Marmalade,
Thee Headcoats,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Make Up,
Nils Olav,
Reagan Youth,
Fugazi,
Michelle Simonal,
Schoolly D,
10cc,
Black Flag,
Rufus Thomas,
Matthew Bourne,
Ossler,
The Searchers,
Isaac Hayes,
Gabor Szabo,
The American Breed,
Shuggie Otis,
Bronski Beat,
the Fania All-Stars,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Neon Judgement,
Smog,
Susan Cadogan,
Harpers Bizarre,
Sam Rivers,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Smiths,
These Immortal Souls,
Charles Mingus,
Soft Machine,
Spandau Ballet,
Nico,
Camberwell Now,
The Techniques, The Techniques, The Techniques, The Techniques.
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.