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 Gabon and from Copenhagen.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 rhodes 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 Flipper to the rock kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 In Retrospect. All the underground hits.
All Crash Course in Science tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sugar Minott 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Metal Thangz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
New Age Steppers,
The Doobie Brothers,
Eric Copeland,
Ultimate Spinach,
Brass Construction,
cv313,
Lalo Schifrin,
In Retrospect,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Kenny Larkin,
Trumans Water,
Scan 7,
The Young Rascals,
10cc,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Ituana,
The Dead C,
Eddi Front,
Spandau Ballet,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Pagans,
Porter Ricks,
Jeff Lynne,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Yusef Lateef,
The Associates,
Lee Hazlewood,
Scratch Acid,
Gerry Rafferty,
Moby Grape,
These Immortal Souls,
48th St. Collective,
Bauhaus,
Wally Richardson,
Joensuu 1685,
Newcleus,
One Last Wish,
The Mojo Men,
Erykah Badu,
Accadde A,
Max Romeo,
Marine Girls,
Wolf Eyes,
Funkadelic,
Buzzcocks,
The Golliwogs,
Wings,
The Real Kids,
Marcia Griffiths,
Gang of Four,
Icehouse,
Cameo,
Cheater Slicks,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Animal Collective,
Circle Jerks,
Arab on Radar,
X-Ray Spex,
The Sound,
Black Pus,
Sound Behaviour,
Royal Trux,
Los Fastidios, Los Fastidios, Los Fastidios, Los Fastidios.
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.