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 Iceland and from Lille.
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 Johannesburg and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Subhumans to the dance kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Livin' Joy. All the underground hits.
All Dark Day tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rites of Spring record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 clarinet and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dorothy Ashby record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Boogie Down Productions,
Bronski Beat,
The Kinks,
Hardrive,
Niagra,
Connie Case,
The Leaves,
The Star Department,
Rekid,
Roger Hodgson,
Stetsasonic,
Chris & Cosey,
Stockholm Monsters,
David Bowie,
Shoche,
Television,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Von Mondo,
Gregory Isaacs,
Peter and Kerry,
Rapeman,
Robert Hood,
Todd Terry,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Rod Modell,
Surgeon,
the Germs,
The Count Five,
The Invisible,
Supertramp,
Alton Ellis,
Mars,
Zero Boys,
Lou Christie,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Television Personalities,
Agitation Free,
Faust,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Roxette,
KRS-One,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Dennis Brown,
Dawn Penn,
The United States of America,
Junior Murvin,
Funky Four + One,
Thompson Twins,
Avey Tare,
the Sonics,
Marine Girls,
The Detroit Cobras,
Glenn Branca,
The Fuzztones,
Jeru the Damaja,
Erykah Badu,
Dual Sessions,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
These Immortal Souls,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Monolake,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Patti Smith, Patti Smith, Patti Smith, Patti Smith.
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.