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 Guatemala and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 the Roxy.
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 Slits. All the underground hits.
All Eurythmics tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Todd Rundgren record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 a rhodes and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Con Funk Shun record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roxette,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Cluster,
Rufus Thomas,
Donald Byrd,
The Modern Lovers,
Easy Going,
Eric Dolphy,
Metal Thangz,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Audionom,
Cymande,
Robert Wyatt,
In Retrospect,
Ralphi Rosario,
Goldenarms,
China Crisis,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Smiths,
Lebanon Hanover,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
10cc,
Joey Negro,
Siglo XX,
E-Dancer,
Brand Nubian,
Mo-Dettes,
The Fall,
Interpol,
48th St. Collective,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Monochrome Set,
Massinfluence,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Rapeman,
The United States of America,
Banda Bassotti,
Crime,
a-ha,
Robert Görl,
Dawn Penn,
Groovy Waters,
Max Romeo,
Tomorrow,
Mad Mike,
Reuben Wilson,
June Days,
New York Dolls,
The Fuzztones,
the Fania All-Stars,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Average White Band,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Trumans Water,
Hasil Adkins,
Fad Gadget,
Alphaville,
Rakim,
Roy Ayers,
Saccharine Trust,
Roger Hodgson, Roger Hodgson, Roger Hodgson, Roger Hodgson.
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.