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 Luxembourg and from Glasgow.
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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 David McCallum to the disco 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 Boredoms. All the underground hits.
All Grandmaster Flash tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Vaughan Mason & Crew record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ronan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Japan,
Andrew Hill,
Matthew Halsall,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Gladiators,
Flash Fearless,
The Zeros,
Ultimate Spinach,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
China Crisis,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Robert Hood,
The Fire Engines,
Marshall Jefferson,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Joe Finger,
Stiv Bators,
Robert Görl,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Suicide,
Amon Düül,
Barclay James Harvest,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Jacob Miller,
The Sonics,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Marc Almond,
Kerri Chandler,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Bob Dylan,
Dorothy Ashby,
Circle Jerks,
The Dirtbombs,
Soft Machine,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Whodini,
Los Fastidios,
Silicon Teens,
The Durutti Column,
Roxy Music,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Dead C,
The Move,
T.S.O.L.,
Bobby Womack,
Depeche Mode,
Minny Pops,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Alarm Clocks,
Little Man,
Rufus Thomas,
Mad Mike,
Gregory Isaacs,
Yaz,
Absolute Body Control,
Cluster,
Icehouse,
The Kinks,
Sugar Minott,
Das Ding,
Dual Sessions,
Eve St. Jones,
MC5,
Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc..
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.