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 Lyon.
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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Oneida to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Jerry's Kids. All the underground hits.
All Pole tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every FM Einheit 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Techniques record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nico,
Tears for Fears,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
OOIOO,
Easy Going,
Pierre Henry,
Alice Coltrane,
Soul Sonic Force,
Joe Smooth,
The Fuzztones,
Supertramp,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Goldenarms,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Guru Guru,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Cowsills,
Reuben Wilson,
Swans,
Dennis Brown,
Cecil Taylor,
Subhumans,
Model 500,
Wally Richardson,
Bauhaus,
Stetsasonic,
Carl Craig,
Fat Boys,
Depeche Mode,
Accadde A,
Youth Brigade,
MC5,
Junior Murvin,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Funky Four + One,
KRS-One,
Television,
Curtis Mayfield,
K-Klass,
Quando Quango,
Fugazi,
Mr. Review,
Lucky Dragons,
Althea and Donna,
Surgeon,
Kerri Chandler,
The Music Machine,
The Shadows of Knight,
Derrick Morgan,
Stiv Bators,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Magazine,
The Birthday Party,
Minny Pops,
Bobby Sherman,
10cc,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Barracudas,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Fugs,
Skarface,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Sixth Finger,
Beasts of Bourbon, Beasts of Bourbon, Beasts of Bourbon, Beasts of Bourbon.
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.