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 Slovakia and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Bronski Beat show in Brixton.
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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Joensuu 1685 to the disco kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Joe Smooth. All the underground hits.
All Cameo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Groovy Waters record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Talk Talk record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Bill Wells,
Alison Limerick,
The American Breed,
Unrelated Segments,
Erykah Badu,
Hot Snakes,
Wolf Eyes,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The United States of America,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Delta 5,
Outsiders,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Isaac Hayes,
Lakeside,
Hashim,
Organ,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Rosa Yemen,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Gerry Rafferty,
Half Japanese,
The Residents,
Tim Buckley,
H. Thieme,
Amon Düül,
Barclay James Harvest,
Faraquet,
Swans,
Bauhaus,
The Alarm Clocks,
Gil Scott Heron,
Agitation Free,
Kaleidoscope,
Oblivians,
Procol Harum,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Radiohead,
Yaz,
the Normal,
Lucky Dragons,
Swell Maps,
Camberwell Now,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Radiopuhelimet,
Wire,
Franke,
Sun Ra,
Toni Rubio,
Joyce Sims,
Scion,
Negative Approach,
Stockholm Monsters,
Can,
Man Eating Sloth,
Archie Shepp,
Fad Gadget,
K-Klass,
Funkadelic,
D'Angelo,
Gabor Szabo,
Drive Like Jehu, Drive Like Jehu, Drive Like Jehu, Drive Like Jehu.
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.