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 Bahrain and from London.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 Alphaville to the jazz kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Mantronix. All the underground hits.
All Soft Cell tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Josef K 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Reuben Wilson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jesper Dahlback,
Kurtis Blow,
Sonny Sharrock,
Eddi Front,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Johnny Osbourne,
Lou Reed,
Slick Rick,
Alton Ellis,
Los Fastidios,
Trumans Water,
Dorothy Ashby,
T.S.O.L.,
Tom Boy,
The Cramps,
Vainqueur,
Ludus,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Underground Resistance,
Matthew Bourne,
Brass Construction,
The American Breed,
Popol Vuh,
The Beau Brummels,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Offenders,
Gregory Isaacs,
Bob Dylan,
B.T. Express,
Sandy B,
Agitation Free,
The Techniques,
Mad Mike,
Kool Moe Dee,
Todd Rundgren,
Wings,
X-101,
X-102,
The Modern Lovers,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
In Retrospect,
Crispy Ambulance,
Barrington Levy,
Brick,
Moby Grape,
Scientists,
Grauzone,
Jeff Mills,
Groovy Waters,
48th St. Collective,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Man Eating Sloth,
Dark Day,
Aswad,
Dave Gahan,
Nico,
New York Dolls,
Robert Görl,
Max Romeo, Max Romeo, Max Romeo, Max Romeo.
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.