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 Ireland and from Portland.
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 1968 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Babytalk to the grime kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Blackbyrds. All the underground hits.
All Harry Pussy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roy Ayers Ubiquity record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 theremin and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Maleditus Sound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
One Last Wish,
Yazoo,
Depeche Mode,
Massinfluence,
Graham Central Station,
Delon & Dalcan,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Bobby Sherman,
Boredoms,
Marshall Jefferson,
Brothers Johnson,
Joe Finger,
Country Teasers,
Television Personalities,
Joe Smooth,
Public Enemy,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Public Image Ltd.,
Ohio Players,
The Evens,
Bobby Womack,
Can,
Prince Buster,
Harmonia,
Suburban Knight,
cv313,
The Sonics,
Glambeats Corp.,
Albert Ayler,
The Alarm Clocks,
Quantec,
John Foxx,
Interpol,
Soul II Soul,
Robert Görl,
Roxette,
Average White Band,
Scrapy,
Gastr Del Sol,
Zero Boys,
Mr. Review,
The Stooges,
Hoover,
Idris Muhammad,
Althea and Donna,
Jeff Mills,
Joy Division,
James White and The Blacks,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Eric Copeland,
F. McDonald,
Gang Green,
Bluetip,
The Real Kids,
Harpers Bizarre,
Marc Almond,
Barbara Tucker,
Scion,
Marine Girls,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Pet Shop Boys,
Gian Franco Pienzio, Gian Franco Pienzio, Gian Franco Pienzio, Gian Franco Pienzio.
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.