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 Portugal and from Edmonton.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 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 Marine Girls to the disco kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 The Associates. All the underground hits.
All Gichy Dan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ronan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Hasil Adkins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Selecter,
Siglo XX,
La Düsseldorf,
Dorothy Ashby,
Yaz,
Silicon Teens,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Von Mondo,
The Slits,
UT,
FM Einheit,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Toasters,
Wire,
Neil Young,
The Dave Clark Five,
Anthony Braxton,
Black Bananas,
Hot Snakes,
Pagans,
Boz Scaggs,
Terry Callier,
Newcleus,
Derrick May,
Crispian St. Peters,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Scratch Acid,
the Association,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Cymande,
Oblivians,
Lalann,
The Grass Roots,
Amazonics,
Kas Product,
Amon Düül II,
Underground Resistance,
Infiniti,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Fifty Foot Hose,
U.S. Maple,
Con Funk Shun,
Matthew Halsall,
Jerry's Kids,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Los Fastidios,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Motorama,
The Tremeloes,
Vainqueur,
Agent Orange,
John Cale,
Organ,
Ralphi Rosario,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Mojo Men,
Ash Ra Tempel,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Rod Modell,
Marine Girls, Marine Girls, Marine Girls, Marine Girls.
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.