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 Chad and from Mexico City.
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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Philadelphia.
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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 The Cramps to the funk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme. All the underground hits.
All It's A Beautiful Day tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Throbbing Gristle record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a 48th St. Collective record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
ABBA,
The Mojo Men,
Tres Demented,
Trumans Water,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Rapeman,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Oneida,
Subhumans,
Judy Mowatt,
The Kinks,
Matthew Halsall,
Inner City,
Althea and Donna,
ABC,
Big Daddy Kane,
Flash Fearless,
The Associates,
World's Most,
Chris Corsano,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Susan Cadogan,
Kayak,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Morten Harket,
David Axelrod,
Vladislav Delay,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Lightning Bolt,
Flamin' Groovies,
Lower 48,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Schoolly D,
Mo-Dettes,
Godley & Creme,
Camberwell Now,
The Misunderstood,
John Lydon,
Cheater Slicks,
Delta 5,
Sight & Sound,
Lee Hazlewood,
Pantaleimon,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Television Personalities,
The Slits,
The Black Dice,
Lindisfarne,
Wings,
Amon Düül II,
Carl Craig,
Pantytec,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
A Certain Ratio,
Crispy Ambulance,
Lalann,
Fear,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Tropical Tobacco,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx, Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx, Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx, Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx.
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.