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 Moldova and from Tokyo.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Stockholm.
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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Young Marble Giants to the crunk 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 DJ Style. All the underground hits.
All Graham Central Station tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Junior Murvin 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Morten Harket 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?
The Real Kids,
MDC,
Easy Going,
The Walker Brothers,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Marvin Gaye,
Soft Cell,
Loose Ends,
Oneida,
Swell Maps,
Josef K,
FM Einheit,
Spoonie Gee,
Nico,
Theoretical Girls,
Television,
The Offenders,
Juan Atkins,
Fatback Band,
Alphaville,
Electric Prunes,
The Happenings,
The Seeds,
Jeff Mills,
Kenny Larkin,
Dark Day,
Terry Callier,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Average White Band,
Chris Corsano,
the Normal,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Q and Not U,
Henry Cow,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Vainqueur,
Grey Daturas,
Hashim,
Deakin,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Eden Ahbez,
Donny Hathaway,
Outsiders,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Faraquet,
OOIOO,
Rapeman,
The Pop Group,
Urselle,
The Velvet Underground,
Desert Stars,
Sight & Sound,
Smog,
Surgeon,
Delon & Dalcan,
10cc,
Goldenarms,
DJ Sneak,
Marmalade,
Derrick Morgan,
ABC,
Eric Copeland, Eric Copeland, Eric Copeland, Eric Copeland.
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.