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 Cyprus and from Mumbai.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Shuggie Otis to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 David Axelrod. All the underground hits.
All Smog tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Vainqueur 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 guitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alphaville record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Drive Like Jehu,
Schoolly D,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Aaron Thompson,
Traffic Nightmare,
Amon Düül II,
Television Personalities,
The Golliwogs,
Glenn Branca,
Al Stewart,
Josef K,
Toni Rubio,
Pharoah Sanders,
Sixth Finger,
Cal Tjader,
Young Marble Giants,
Pagans,
The Mojo Men,
The Associates,
Mark Hollis,
Simply Red,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Trojans,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Arab on Radar,
Section 25,
The Neon Judgement,
Loose Ends,
Aswad,
Average White Band,
Oneida,
Popol Vuh,
The J.B.'s,
The Saints,
Maurizio,
Dennis Brown,
Vainqueur,
Japan,
The Kinks,
AZ,
Man Eating Sloth,
Janne Schatter,
Moby Grape,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Divine Comedy,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Brand Nubian,
Mr. Review,
David Axelrod,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Cure,
The Selecter,
Electric Prunes,
Robert Hood,
Gregory Isaacs,
Accadde A,
Oblivians,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Absolute Body Control,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Dave Gahan,
Model 500, Model 500, Model 500, Model 500.
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.