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 Gabon and from Cairo.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 rhodes 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 Heavy D & The Boyz to the rock kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Techniques. All the underground hits.
All Whodini tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every June Days record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 a marimba and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Con Funk Shun record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Toasters,
Crooked Eye,
The Sound,
Rapeman,
Make Up,
Piero Umiliani,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Con Funk Shun,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
New Order,
Symarip,
Television,
Peter and Kerry,
Sun Ra,
Gang Green,
Soulsonic Force,
kango's stein massive,
UT,
The Moody Blues,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Moss Icon,
Los Fastidios,
The Grass Roots,
Adolescents,
Pantytec,
Bluetip,
The Neon Judgement,
The Trojans,
Tomorrow,
Barbara Tucker,
Bizarre Inc.,
Joey Negro,
The Last Poets,
China Crisis,
Isaac Hayes,
Theoretical Girls,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
John Coltrane,
Neu!,
The Slackers,
Dark Day,
The Standells,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Roger Hodgson,
The Shadows of Knight,
Bobby Sherman,
the Bar-Kays,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Hardrive,
Organ,
Hashim,
Brick,
The Detroit Cobras,
The New Christs,
Ronan,
the Soft Cell,
Crime,
Idris Muhammad,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Mummies,
Liliput,
The Buckinghams,
The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set.
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.