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 Argentina and from Delhi.
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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Ponytail to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Joyce Sims. All the underground hits.
All Aswad tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Newcleus 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Silicon Teens record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Modern Lovers,
Bill Near,
LL Cool J,
Procol Harum,
The Sound,
Warsaw,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Ornette Coleman,
ABC,
The Raincoats,
Jerry's Kids,
The Kinks,
Soul Sonic Force,
Skarface,
Fatback Band,
Second Layer,
The Pretty Things,
H. Thieme,
Inner City,
JFA,
Kerri Chandler,
The Mummies,
Bobby Sherman,
Suburban Knight,
Angry Samoans,
Gregory Isaacs,
Crash Course in Science,
Arthur Verocai,
Panda Bear,
The Count Five,
Pierre Henry,
Bizarre Inc.,
Q and Not U,
Basic Channel,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Fall,
Supertramp,
the Human League,
Can,
Grauzone,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Gastr Del Sol,
Dual Sessions,
Oneida,
Little Man,
Mad Mike,
Schoolly D,
Visage,
Section 25,
The Residents,
EPMD,
Graham Central Station,
Deakin,
The Young Rascals,
The Saints,
Lalo Schifrin,
Aaron Thompson,
Black Pus,
John Coltrane,
Prince Buster,
The New Christs,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Janne Schatter,
Newcleus, Newcleus, Newcleus, Newcleus.
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.