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 Togo and from Seoul.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Bronski Beat to the grunge 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 Alphaville. All the underground hits.
All John Foxx tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Associates record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Hardrive record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kerrie Biddell,
Deadbeat,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Parry Music,
Eurythmics,
Rites of Spring,
Thee Headcoats,
Mission of Burma,
Sight & Sound,
Nils Olav,
Howard Jones,
X-102,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Jacob Miller,
Slick Rick,
Avey Tare,
Banda Bassotti,
Aaron Thompson,
Boz Scaggs,
New Age Steppers,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Associates,
The Toasters,
Donny Hathaway,
Max Romeo,
Sam Rivers,
R.M.O.,
Soul Sonic Force,
Bill Near,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Gladiators,
Yazoo,
Underground Resistance,
Skriet,
Soul II Soul,
Malaria!,
Jeff Mills,
Robert Hood,
Wolf Eyes,
Grey Daturas,
Average White Band,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Pere Ubu,
Amon Düül II,
Quantec,
The Monochrome Set,
Cameo,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Grandmaster Flash,
Zero Boys,
Thompson Twins,
The Beau Brummels,
Fugazi,
Skarface,
Fatback Band,
Black Sheep,
Loose Ends,
Throbbing Gristle,
Anakelly,
A Certain Ratio,
Camberwell Now,
MC5, MC5, MC5, MC5.
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.