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 Azerbaijan and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 marimba 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 Neil Young & Crazy Horse to the dance kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Vaughan Mason & Crew. All the underground hits.
All Roger Hodgson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Five Americans 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Germs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Youth Brigade,
Kenny Larkin,
Easy Going,
The Star Department,
Althea and Donna,
ABC,
World's Most,
Electric Light Orchestra,
One Last Wish,
Jeff Lynne,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Con Funk Shun,
The Searchers,
Alphaville,
DJ Sneak,
Television Personalities,
Aswad,
Intrusion,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Isaac Hayes,
Khruangbin,
Camberwell Now,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Camouflage,
Glambeats Corp.,
Ultimate Spinach,
Nirvana,
Metal Thangz,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Grass Roots,
Panda Bear,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Johnny Clarke,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Electric Prunes,
The Gap Band,
Erykah Badu,
The Monks,
Shuggie Otis,
Harpers Bizarre,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Model 500,
The Busters,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Q65,
The Fuzztones,
Banda Bassotti,
The Cramps,
Kayak,
Silicon Teens,
Matthew Bourne,
The Stooges,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Eurythmics,
Tropical Tobacco,
Angry Samoans,
These Immortal Souls,
Bush Tetras, Bush Tetras, Bush Tetras, Bush Tetras.
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.