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 Rwanda and from Milan.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Happenings to the funk 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 Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade. All the underground hits.
All DeepChord presents Echospace tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Harry Pussy 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Red Lorry Yellow Lorry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
New York Dolls,
DJ Style,
Grey Daturas,
Idris Muhammad,
Cybotron,
Lalo Schifrin,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
L. Decosne,
Lakeside,
Frankie Knuckles,
Animal Collective,
Mission of Burma,
It's A Beautiful Day,
U.S. Maple,
Neil Young,
Mantronix,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Martian,
Marc Almond,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Searchers,
Joe Smooth,
R.M.O.,
This Heat,
Interpol,
The Motions,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Blues Magoos,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Nas,
Essential Logic,
Archie Shepp,
Tres Demented,
Jacques Brel,
Connie Case,
Aaron Thompson,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
David Axelrod,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Joe Finger,
Joey Negro,
The Neon Judgement,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Whodini,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Josef K,
Jawbox,
X-101,
Steve Hackett,
Pierre Henry,
Leonard Cohen,
Parry Music,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Techniques,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
cv313,
Skriet,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Fuzztones, The Fuzztones, The Fuzztones, The Fuzztones.
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.