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 Mexico and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 linndrum 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 Flash Fearless to the funk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 The Monochrome Set. All the underground hits.
All Arthur Verocai tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Model 500 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Real Kids record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Shoche,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The J.B.'s,
Black Bananas,
Gang Gang Dance,
World's Most,
Easy Going,
Absolute Body Control,
Gong,
10cc,
Tom Boy,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Skriet,
Magma,
Eve St. Jones,
Swell Maps,
Public Image Ltd.,
David Bowie,
The Moleskins,
The Last Poets,
The Slits,
Panda Bear,
The Index,
Scion,
Mars,
CMW,
Camberwell Now,
Depeche Mode,
Ultra Naté,
ABBA,
The New Christs,
Symarip,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Electric Prunes,
The Human League,
Johnny Clarke,
Erykah Badu,
Minor Threat,
MC5,
Crash Course in Science,
Sun Ra,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Curtis Mayfield,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Severed Heads,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Knickerbockers,
This Heat,
The Doors,
Clear Light,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Bobby Sherman,
Lou Christie,
Heaven 17,
Sun City Girls,
Slick Rick,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Girls At Our Best!,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Stetsasonic,
Flipper, Flipper, Flipper, Flipper.
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.