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 Guyana and from Johannesburg.
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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 David Bowie 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 Searchers to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 London Community Gospel Choir. All the underground hits.
All The Standells tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Brothers Johnson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Massinfluence record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ludus,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Human League,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Ultra Naté,
Jeff Lynne,
Jeru the Damaja,
Lee Hazlewood,
Morten Harket,
Guru Guru,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Busters,
The Vogues,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Derrick May,
Isaac Hayes,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Al Stewart,
Dorothy Ashby,
Japan,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Saccharine Trust,
The Fortunes,
Au Pairs,
The Detroit Cobras,
Dual Sessions,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Chris Corsano,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Rufus Thomas,
Franke,
Y Pants,
Faust,
OOIOO,
Sparks,
DJ Style,
Bobby Womack,
Gang Green,
Ultimate Spinach,
Mission of Burma,
The Trojans,
Buzzcocks,
The Barracudas,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Heaven 17,
Marcia Griffiths,
Youth Brigade,
Slick Rick,
Stetsasonic,
Arcadia,
The Fire Engines,
Thompson Twins,
X-102,
Skriet,
Gong,
Scientists,
Sun Ra,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Goldenarms,
Sällskapet,
The Doors, The Doors, The Doors, The Doors.
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.