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 Chile and from Accra.
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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 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 Gary Puckett & The Union Gap to the rock 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 Susan Cadogan. All the underground hits.
All Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pierre Henry record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 808 and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sad Lovers and Giants record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mo-Dettes,
Flash Fearless,
Marmalade,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Jesper Dahlback,
Stockholm Monsters,
Y Pants,
The New Christs,
Pylon,
Tears for Fears,
Delon & Dalcan,
Scion,
Excepter,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Mad Mike,
Tom Boy,
The Gories,
The Durutti Column,
Nas,
Charles Mingus,
Brand Nubian,
Cybotron,
David Axelrod,
The Fugs,
Underground Resistance,
Gong,
Soul Sonic Force,
Ornette Coleman,
Robert Hood,
the Soft Cell,
Jerry's Kids,
Model 500,
Dawn Penn,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Intrusion,
Hasil Adkins,
A Certain Ratio,
Electric Light Orchestra,
David Bowie,
Soulsonic Force,
Wally Richardson,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
ABBA,
Albert Ayler,
Grauzone,
The Index,
K-Klass,
Shoche,
Minnie Riperton,
Aaron Thompson,
Masters at Work,
The Knickerbockers,
The Wake,
Silicon Teens,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Swans,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Vainqueur,
Tommy Roe,
Skarface,
Yaz,
Minutemen,
The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five.
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.