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 Bahrain and from Manchester.
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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Young Rascals to the crunk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Soulsonic Force. All the underground hits.
All Bluetip tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pylon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a theremin.
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,
Hashim,
Oblivians,
The J.B.'s,
Rufus Thomas,
The Happenings,
Kaleidoscope,
Leonard Cohen,
Tim Buckley,
Colin Newman,
Byron Stingily,
The Smoke,
Fatback Band,
CMW,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Soul II Soul,
Massinfluence,
Wolf Eyes,
Flamin' Groovies,
Man Eating Sloth,
Severed Heads,
Magazine,
Ralphi Rosario,
Deepchord,
Delta 5,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Brand Nubian,
Second Layer,
Easy Going,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
the Soft Cell,
Yazoo,
The Smiths,
Eddi Front,
Agitation Free,
Heaven 17,
Anakelly,
Stockholm Monsters,
Grandmaster Flash,
Arcadia,
Gastr Del Sol,
Bootsy Collins,
Khruangbin,
The Music Machine,
Maleditus Sound,
Public Image Ltd.,
UT,
ABBA,
Kool Moe Dee,
Franke,
the Association,
Nico,
the Fania All-Stars,
Tomorrow,
Marc Almond,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Outsiders,
The Litter,
Bizarre Inc.,
Scrapy,
John Foxx, John Foxx, John Foxx, John Foxx.
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.