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 Poland and from Bremen.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Tears for Fears to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Urselle. All the underground hits.
All Radiohead tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sam Rivers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 güiro and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mark Hollis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Ultra Naté,
Kerrie Biddell,
Los Fastidios,
The Cramps,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Fad Gadget,
The Fuzztones,
In Retrospect,
The Doors,
Dual Sessions,
Erykah Badu,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
DJ Style,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Graham Central Station,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Unrelated Segments,
Surgeon,
Bizarre Inc.,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Aloha Tigers,
Aaron Thompson,
Cybotron,
Colin Newman,
Talk Talk,
Kevin Saunderson,
Alice Coltrane,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Barclay James Harvest,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Radiohead,
Stetsasonic,
Livin' Joy,
Marvin Gaye,
The New Christs,
The Gun Club,
Joe Smooth,
Henry Cow,
Bob Dylan,
Brothers Johnson,
Procol Harum,
Boogie Down Productions,
Con Funk Shun,
the Soft Cell,
Make Up,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Mo-Dettes,
Harmonia,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Cowsills,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Excepter,
Main Source,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Au Pairs,
Matthew Halsall, Matthew Halsall, Matthew Halsall, Matthew Halsall.
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.