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 Sierra Leone and from Lagos.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 arpeggiator 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 A Flock of Seagulls to the dance 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 Siouxsie and the Banshees. All the underground hits.
All The Men They Couldn't Hang tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tomorrow record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rapeman record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dennis Brown,
Kool Moe Dee,
Neil Young,
Soul Sonic Force,
Liliput,
Letta Mbulu,
June of 44,
OOIOO,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Buzzcocks,
Stereo Dub,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Bobby Hutcherson,
In Retrospect,
The Durutti Column,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
MC5,
Kayak,
Grandmaster Flash,
Marine Girls,
Alison Limerick,
PIL,
The Selecter,
Anakelly,
Iggy Pop,
Can,
Andrew Hill,
Lou Christie,
Chrome,
Babytalk,
Guru Guru,
Q65,
Scrapy,
Gang Starr,
The Gladiators,
Max Romeo,
Hardrive,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Big Daddy Kane,
Inner City,
Reuben Wilson,
New Age Steppers,
Slave,
Tears for Fears,
Alton Ellis,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Human League,
Joyce Sims,
Amon Düül,
Moss Icon,
Ronan,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Harpers Bizarre,
Eden Ahbez,
Pulsallama,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Make Up,
Stockholm Monsters,
Fela Kuti, Fela Kuti, Fela Kuti, Fela Kuti.
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.