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 Namibia and from Lagos.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and New York.
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 1983 at the first Bronski Beat practice in a loft in Brixton.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Names to the grunge kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Gary Puckett & The Union Gap. All the underground hits.
All Justin Hinds & The Dominoes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Television 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Dead C record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Television Personalities,
Eli Mardock,
Deakin,
Zero Boys,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Massinfluence,
L. Decosne,
Technova,
The Invisible,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Shadows of Knight,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Cowsills,
Minny Pops,
Magma,
Dave Gahan,
Vainqueur,
Pole,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Gladiators,
Procol Harum,
Tropical Tobacco,
Joe Smooth,
Curtis Mayfield,
Lower 48,
Darondo,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Joensuu 1685,
Rhythm & Sound,
Toni Rubio,
The Count Five,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Jawbox,
Scientists,
The Happenings,
Reagan Youth,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Altered Images,
Johnny Osbourne,
Gerry Rafferty,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Davy DMX,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Skatalites,
Lalo Schifrin,
Connie Case,
The Vogues,
Donald Byrd,
Kool Moe Dee,
Carl Craig,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Crime,
Bush Tetras,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Janne Schatter,
Neu!,
8 Eyed Spy,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Wake,
Main Source,
The Five Americans, The Five Americans, The Five Americans, The Five Americans.
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.