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 Lesotho and from Bremen.
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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Lizzy Mercier Descloux to the electroclash 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 Terror Squad Feat. Camron. All the underground hits.
All Wolf Eyes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Susan Cadogan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joensuu 1685 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Yazoo,
Flamin' Groovies,
David McCallum,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Au Pairs,
10cc,
Reagan Youth,
Peter & Gordon,
a-ha,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Joyce Sims,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Inner City,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Moody Blues,
T. Rex,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Wally Richardson,
Jacques Brel,
Chris Corsano,
Boogie Down Productions,
Albert Ayler,
the Soft Cell,
Clear Light,
Mars,
Laurel Aitken,
Michelle Simonal,
Camberwell Now,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Amazonics,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Todd Rundgren,
Dawn Penn,
Glambeats Corp.,
Gang Green,
Technova,
Japan,
The Cramps,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Brothers Johnson,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Qualms,
The Slits,
Gabor Szabo,
The J.B.'s,
Vladislav Delay,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Babytalk,
Brick,
The Beau Brummels,
Crispian St. Peters,
Magma,
The Monks,
Funky Four + One,
Soft Cell,
Skriet, Skriet, Skriet, Skriet.
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.