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 Bahrain and from Tehran.
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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
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 Electric Light Orchestra to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 A Certain Ratio. All the underground hits.
All The Busters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dual Sessions record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delon & Dalcan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Porter Ricks,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Rekid,
cv313,
Urselle,
The Human League,
Siglo XX,
Thompson Twins,
Flash Fearless,
The Durutti Column,
Nation of Ulysses,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Icehouse,
Jeff Lynne,
Oblivians,
Black Bananas,
Y Pants,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Audionom,
Make Up,
Model 500,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Kaleidoscope,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Martian,
Reagan Youth,
Loose Ends,
Chrome,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Deepchord,
Barclay James Harvest,
Gong,
Radiopuhelimet,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
a-ha,
The Cosmic Jokers,
X-101,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Tremeloes,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Skaos,
Kas Product,
Tomorrow,
The Sonics,
The Searchers,
Girls At Our Best!,
Terrestrial Tones,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Steve Hackett,
The Residents,
Leonard Cohen,
Neil Young,
Excepter,
Harmonia,
The Gap Band,
Thee Headcoats, Thee Headcoats, Thee Headcoats, Thee Headcoats.
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.