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 Malta and from Manila.
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 Beijing and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Judy Mowatt to the grime 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 Delta 5. All the underground hits.
All Godley & Creme tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Leonard Cohen record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 sitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Blackbyrds record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Public Image Ltd.,
Bush Tetras,
Dark Day,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Monochrome Set,
Country Joe & The Fish,
One Last Wish,
Idris Muhammad,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Young Marble Giants,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Nico,
The Names,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Carl Craig,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Slave,
Ultimate Spinach,
Joe Smooth,
E-Dancer,
Radiopuhelimet,
Judy Mowatt,
New Age Steppers,
Black Sheep,
Soft Cell,
L. Decosne,
Joy Division,
Bill Near,
Whodini,
Fluxion,
Grandmaster Flash,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Buckinghams,
Lalo Schifrin,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
DJ Style,
China Crisis,
Matthew Halsall,
Eric Copeland,
Mad Mike,
The Fire Engines,
The Kinks,
Black Moon,
X-101,
Pagans,
The Young Rascals,
Lee Hazlewood,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Severed Heads,
Stetsasonic,
Avey Tare,
Procol Harum,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Letta Mbulu,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Jeru the Damaja,
Nils Olav,
Tom Boy,
Supertramp,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Peter & Gordon,
Von Mondo, Von Mondo, Von Mondo, Von Mondo.
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.