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 Singapore and from Glasgow.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 chamberlin 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 New Order to the rap kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Make Up. All the underground hits.
All Scott Walker + Sunn O))) tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cymande record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jeff Lynne record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Youth Brigade,
Aswad,
Chris Corsano,
The Remains,
New Order,
Lungfish,
Flash Fearless,
Albert Ayler,
ABC,
Jerry's Kids,
DJ Style,
A Flock of Seagulls,
MDC,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Gang Gang Dance,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Soul II Soul,
Moss Icon,
The Motions,
Circle Jerks,
Camberwell Now,
Zapp,
Depeche Mode,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
D'Angelo,
Fela Kuti,
China Crisis,
Sam Rivers,
Aaron Thompson,
Avey Tare,
Peter and Kerry,
Dark Day,
Japan,
10cc,
The Blackbyrds,
Fatback Band,
Fluxion,
Arthur Verocai,
U.S. Maple,
Boz Scaggs,
The Fall,
Boredoms,
Colin Newman,
The Invisible,
Fad Gadget,
EPMD,
The Fugs,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Roy Ayers,
the Bar-Kays,
The Buckinghams,
Monolake,
The Raincoats,
Negative Approach,
Kas Product,
Schoolly D,
Sparks,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Ituana,
Marshall Jefferson, Marshall Jefferson, Marshall Jefferson, Marshall Jefferson.
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.