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 Fiji and from Mexico City.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and London.
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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the snare 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 Cheater Slicks to the funk 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 Scan 7. All the underground hits.
All Fad Gadget tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every This Heat 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Outsiders record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nico,
Sonny Sharrock,
Theoretical Girls,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Knickerbockers,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
the Sonics,
June Days,
The Shadows of Knight,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Maleditus Sound,
ABC,
Amazonics,
Alton Ellis,
David McCallum,
Juan Atkins,
Cymande,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Pretty Things,
Half Japanese,
Nirvana,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
John Cale,
The Durutti Column,
The Kinks,
The Motions,
Scientists,
Toni Rubio,
Little Man,
The Blues Magoos,
The Vogues,
Marvin Gaye,
Popol Vuh,
Tom Boy,
Terry Callier,
X-101,
Rakim,
New Age Steppers,
Todd Rundgren,
Boz Scaggs,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Amon Düül II,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Skatalites,
Anakelly,
The Dead C,
The Invisible,
The Litter,
David Axelrod,
Rotary Connection,
Panda Bear,
Sister Nancy,
Neu!,
Black Bananas,
The Trojans,
The Barracudas,
Bob Dylan,
Pussy Galore,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Derrick Morgan,
Icehouse, Icehouse, Icehouse, Icehouse.
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.