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 Kazakhstan and from Tokyo.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the marimba 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 Lalo Schifrin 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 10cc. All the underground hits.
All The Jesus and Mary Chain tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Manfred Mann's Earth Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Matthew Halsall record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Neil Young,
The Tremeloes,
Average White Band,
Lindisfarne,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
T.S.O.L.,
Lightning Bolt,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Raincoats,
Hardrive,
Johnny Osbourne,
Derrick May,
Simply Red,
Marvin Gaye,
Wire,
Lower 48,
Slick Rick,
the Normal,
Zero Boys,
The Gap Band,
Agitation Free,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Index,
MC5,
Electric Prunes,
cv313,
China Crisis,
Subhumans,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Gang of Four,
Trumans Water,
Crime,
Crooked Eye,
Kevin Saunderson,
Absolute Body Control,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Busters,
AZ,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Bobby Byrd,
Sam Rivers,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Royal Trux,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Leonard Cohen,
Jacques Brel,
Sound Behaviour,
Man Parrish,
Minny Pops,
Arab on Radar,
Supertramp,
The Selecter,
Siglo XX,
The Martian,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Soul II Soul,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Harpers Bizarre,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Magma,
Brass Construction, Brass Construction, Brass Construction, Brass Construction.
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.