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 Oman and from Bologna.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 clarinet 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 The Modern Lovers to the techno 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 Excepter. All the underground hits.
All Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Major Organ And The Adding Machine record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scott Walker + Sunn O))) record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Althea and Donna,
The Cure,
Alton Ellis,
Isaac Hayes,
Charles Mingus,
Babytalk,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Skatalites,
Stiv Bators,
Ultra Naté,
Eddi Front,
New Order,
Lightning Bolt,
The Move,
Kayak,
Terrestrial Tones,
the Slits,
The Sound,
Black Moon,
Wings,
Shuggie Otis,
Metal Thangz,
Andrew Hill,
Mantronix,
Pharoah Sanders,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Ten City,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Brick,
Magazine,
The Litter,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Duran Duran,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Roy Ayers,
Echospace,
The Toasters,
Aaron Thompson,
Howard Jones,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Arab on Radar,
Schoolly D,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Quantec,
Average White Band,
Minutemen,
The Pop Group,
LL Cool J,
Massinfluence,
ABC,
Simply Red,
The Cramps,
Leonard Cohen,
Hardrive,
Minor Threat,
Eric Dolphy,
Ultravox,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Music Machine, The Music Machine, The Music Machine, The Music Machine.
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.