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 Georgia and from Winnipeg.
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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Camberwell Now to the crunk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Shoche. All the underground hits.
All X-Ray Spex tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rites of Spring record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 spring reverb and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a L. Decosne record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Freddie Wadling,
Silicon Teens,
Rosa Yemen,
The Young Rascals,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Albert Ayler,
James Chance & The Contortions,
UT,
Oneida,
Crooked Eye,
Urselle,
Funkadelic,
John Foxx,
Depeche Mode,
Moss Icon,
Todd Rundgren,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Busters,
Mo-Dettes,
The Sonics,
Franke,
Monks,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Smoke,
Magazine,
This Heat,
Parry Music,
Sister Nancy,
Lindisfarne,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Danielle Patucci,
Soul Sonic Force,
James White and The Blacks,
Schoolly D,
Loose Ends,
Bob Dylan,
Ralphi Rosario,
Frankie Knuckles,
Brick,
kango's stein massive,
Y Pants,
Index,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Newcleus,
Television Personalities,
Supertramp,
Jerry's Kids,
The Standells,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Throbbing Gristle,
Sound Behaviour,
The Vogues,
The Cowsills,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
John Coltrane,
Soft Machine,
Ludus,
Todd Terry,
Slick Rick,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Saints,
Josef K, Josef K, Josef K, Josef K.
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.