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 Nauru and from Lille.
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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic to the rock 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 Electric Light Orchestra. All the underground hits.
All Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Liaisons Dangereuses record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Circle Jerks,
Ronnie Foster,
Janne Schatter,
Soulsonic Force,
Dennis Brown,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Fortunes,
the Human League,
Quando Quango,
Thee Headcoats,
Bill Near,
A Flock of Seagulls,
10cc,
Girls At Our Best!,
Quadrant,
Tubeway Army,
Spandau Ballet,
Ludus,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Massinfluence,
DNA,
The Grass Roots,
ABBA,
Vladislav Delay,
Dave Gahan,
The Velvet Underground,
Scan 7,
Liliput,
Lindisfarne,
New Age Steppers,
The Gories,
Rod Modell,
Sun Ra,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Zeros,
Make Up,
Dual Sessions,
Radiopuhelimet,
Visage,
Second Layer,
Underground Resistance,
Matthew Halsall,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Stockholm Monsters,
Man Parrish,
Gil Scott Heron,
Jandek,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
John Foxx,
Bush Tetras,
Pet Shop Boys,
Lou Reed,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Trojans,
The Red Krayola,
The Index,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Young Marble Giants,
Nico,
Carl Craig,
The Tremeloes,
Minny Pops,
Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal.
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.