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 Moldova and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 organ 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 Move to the rock kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Dawn Penn. All the underground hits.
All Zapp tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Neu! record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 synthesizer and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a David Axelrod record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Yazoo,
FM Einheit,
The American Breed,
Reuben Wilson,
The Seeds,
Flash Fearless,
Sonic Youth,
Ultravox,
Gabor Szabo,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Black Moon,
X-Ray Spex,
Black Flag,
the Human League,
the Fania All-Stars,
Monolake,
Urselle,
The Detroit Cobras,
Chris & Cosey,
The Tremeloes,
Sexual Harrassment,
Cluster,
Fatback Band,
Radiohead,
Peter & Gordon,
Erykah Badu,
Goldenarms,
The Victims,
Rufus Thomas,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Country Teasers,
Sarah Menescal,
Junior Murvin,
Theoretical Girls,
Jeru the Damaja,
Sandy B,
KRS-One,
The Music Machine,
Donny Hathaway,
The Cowsills,
Angry Samoans,
Soul Sonic Force,
Jandek,
The Vogues,
Average White Band,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Matthew Bourne,
The Red Krayola,
The Beau Brummels,
Todd Rundgren,
Pharoah Sanders,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
David McCallum,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Doobie Brothers,
Laurel Aitken,
Alphaville,
The Saints,
Echospace,
Supertramp,
Joyce Sims,
Eve St. Jones, Eve St. Jones, Eve St. Jones, Eve St. Jones.
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.