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 Bahamas and from Johannesburg.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Fad Gadget to the disco 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 Deadbeat. All the underground hits.
All Massinfluence tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Radiopuhelimet 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alton Ellis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Happenings,
Al Stewart,
Scrapy,
Tom Boy,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Lee Hazlewood,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Move,
R.M.O.,
Whodini,
UT,
Delta 5,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Girls At Our Best!,
Tommy Roe,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Hashim,
Blancmange,
Parry Music,
The Electric Prunes,
10cc,
Sarah Menescal,
Newcleus,
David McCallum,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Busters,
The Modern Lovers,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Crime,
Pagans,
Boredoms,
The Stooges,
Con Funk Shun,
Hasil Adkins,
Magazine,
The Associates,
OOIOO,
Massinfluence,
Michelle Simonal,
Lou Reed,
Procol Harum,
Nick Fraelich,
Howard Jones,
Ohio Players,
Ossler,
Dave Gahan,
Hardrive,
Technova,
Peter and Kerry,
Trumans Water,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Nas,
Johnny Osbourne,
Dead Boys,
Soft Machine,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Ronan,
Eric Dolphy,
These Immortal Souls, These Immortal Souls, These Immortal Souls, These Immortal Souls.
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.