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 Australia and from Madrid.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 clarinet 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 Alphaville to the dance kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Ludus. All the underground hits.
All Hashim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Infiniti record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Main Source record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
the Sonics,
The Blues Magoos,
Babytalk,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Gichy Dan,
Joyce Sims,
Procol Harum,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Guru Guru,
Deakin,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Doors,
Scan 7,
Metal Thangz,
Erasure,
Goldenarms,
Dennis Brown,
Mission of Burma,
Danielle Patucci,
10cc,
The Monochrome Set,
The Motions,
Susan Cadogan,
Zero Boys,
The Leaves,
Bobby Womack,
Sight & Sound,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
E-Dancer,
Grauzone,
Derrick Morgan,
Heaven 17,
This Heat,
Wings,
The Fuzztones,
Minor Threat,
MDC,
Amon Düül II,
KRS-One,
The Cramps,
Thompson Twins,
Faust,
Porter Ricks,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Slackers,
Ten City,
Television,
The Shadows of Knight,
Eric Copeland,
The Black Dice,
Anthony Braxton,
The Tremeloes,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Fear,
Livin' Joy,
Kas Product,
Ken Boothe,
Magazine,
John Holt,
The Invisible,
the Association,
FM Einheit, FM Einheit, FM Einheit, FM Einheit.
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.