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 Belize and from Madrid.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Tokyo.
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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the theremin 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 The Shadows of Knight to the techno 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 a-ha. All the underground hits.
All Yaz tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eli Mardock record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 linndrum and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Anakelly record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum 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 Doobie Brothers,
Steve Hackett,
The Count Five,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Marvin Gaye,
Soulsonic Force,
Wasted Youth,
Ossler,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Johnny Osbourne,
Lucky Dragons,
KRS-One,
Pere Ubu,
Motorama,
Flamin' Groovies,
Whodini,
The Monochrome Set,
Howard Jones,
Theoretical Girls,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Gun Club,
Alton Ellis,
Ultra Naté,
Nils Olav,
Leonard Cohen,
Hoover,
Japan,
Fad Gadget,
Kool Moe Dee,
Procol Harum,
Ten City,
Donny Hathaway,
Barclay James Harvest,
Pantytec,
Fifty Foot Hose,
World's Most,
Toni Rubio,
Tomorrow,
The Blackbyrds,
Guru Guru,
The Leaves,
Peter & Gordon,
Television Personalities,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Zero Boys,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Michelle Simonal,
Smog,
Tubeway Army,
The Walker Brothers,
Warsaw,
Connie Case,
Rhythm & Sound,
Faraquet,
Todd Rundgren,
Reagan Youth,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Malaria!,
Gang Green, Gang Green, Gang Green, Gang Green.
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.