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 Italy and from Copenhagen.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 Robert Palmer 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 Quantec to the grunge 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 London Community Gospel Choir. All the underground hits.
All DJ Style tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cheater Slicks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joe Finger,
Fela Kuti,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Duran Duran,
Second Layer,
Sugar Minott,
Eden Ahbez,
Harpers Bizarre,
Gastr Del Sol,
Scan 7,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Matthew Halsall,
Tomorrow,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Flash Fearless,
Half Japanese,
Judy Mowatt,
Pierre Henry,
Neu!,
New Order,
Mr. Review,
Accadde A,
Boz Scaggs,
Erykah Badu,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Eric Copeland,
Kool Moe Dee,
Silicon Teens,
Fatback Band,
The Knickerbockers,
Radio Birdman,
Iggy Pop,
The J.B.'s,
Sound Behaviour,
Television,
Alice Coltrane,
Rod Modell,
Ronnie Foster,
Mandrill,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Soft Machine,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Negative Approach,
Mo-Dettes,
Aaron Thompson,
Slick Rick,
X-102,
Kerrie Biddell,
Radiohead,
Con Funk Shun,
The Zeros,
Cabaret Voltaire,
the Soft Cell,
Spandau Ballet,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Cheater Slicks,
The Sound,
The Litter,
The Selecter,
Gabor Szabo,
The Human League, The Human League, The Human League, The Human League.
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.