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 Estonia and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 clarinet 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the rap kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Babytalk. All the underground hits.
All Roger Hodgson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Intrusion record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Colin Newman,
Crispy Ambulance,
Newcleus,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Litter,
Accadde A,
The Leaves,
MC5,
Glambeats Corp.,
Joensuu 1685,
10cc,
Lakeside,
Stockholm Monsters,
Drexciya,
These Immortal Souls,
Ornette Coleman,
a-ha,
The Kinks,
Sunsets and Hearts,
MDC,
Mars,
The Gap Band,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Oblivians,
The Associates,
The Dead C,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Delta 5,
The Human League,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Bobby Sherman,
Curtis Mayfield,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Lindisfarne,
Ronnie Foster,
Eddi Front,
The Seeds,
Model 500,
Crooked Eye,
The Victims,
Cymande,
Mad Mike,
Girls At Our Best!,
Livin' Joy,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Make Up,
La Düsseldorf,
Boz Scaggs,
David Axelrod,
Minny Pops,
Pylon,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Radiopuhelimet,
Basic Channel,
Eurythmics,
Brick,
Patti Smith,
Pharoah Sanders,
Morten Harket,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
FM Einheit,
The Misunderstood,
Ultravox, Ultravox, Ultravox, Ultravox.
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.