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 Georgia and from Manchester.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 The Divine Comedy to the disco kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Colin Newman. All the underground hits.
All Ossler tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every UT record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 a 808 and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Spandau Ballet record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Sun Ra,
Hardrive,
Radiopuhelimet,
Roger Hodgson,
Reagan Youth,
Cheater Slicks,
Janne Schatter,
The Pop Group,
Public Image Ltd.,
Groovy Waters,
Con Funk Shun,
The Moody Blues,
Minny Pops,
Kurtis Blow,
The Busters,
The Fugs,
Aural Exciters,
Harry Pussy,
FM Einheit,
Max Romeo,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Zeros,
Bizarre Inc.,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Johnny Osbourne,
Godley & Creme,
New Order,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Ronnie Foster,
Lightning Bolt,
Sarah Menescal,
Lebanon Hanover,
Sister Nancy,
The Blackbyrds,
Sällskapet,
Brick,
Clear Light,
The New Christs,
Crime,
Marvin Gaye,
Kayak,
The Monochrome Set,
Crispian St. Peters,
Outsiders,
Zero Boys,
Unwound,
The Pretty Things,
Scientists,
Joyce Sims,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Minutemen,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Trojans,
Pantaleimon,
Leonard Cohen,
Dave Gahan,
Blake Baxter,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Sixth Finger,
Wire,
Angry Samoans, Angry Samoans, Angry Samoans, Angry Samoans.
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.