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 Marshall Islands and from Toronto.
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 1967 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 rhodes 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 Pierre Henry to the jazz 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All Notorious Big And Bone Thugs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Teenage Jesus and the Jerks 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Massinfluence record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bad Manners,
Bauhaus,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Tomorrow,
Rapeman,
Gang of Four,
K-Klass,
Deakin,
The Offenders,
John Lydon,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Fuzztones,
Mark Hollis,
Spandau Ballet,
Gil Scott Heron,
Boredoms,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Henry Cow,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Alison Limerick,
Donald Byrd,
The Monochrome Set,
Angry Samoans,
The New Christs,
Nation of Ulysses,
June Days,
Visage,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Marshall Jefferson,
X-Ray Spex,
Dawn Penn,
Easy Going,
Suburban Knight,
The Beau Brummels,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Doobie Brothers,
Ice-T,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Aural Exciters,
Lee Hazlewood,
Dark Day,
Iggy Pop,
Cal Tjader,
Sam Rivers,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Index,
Terrestrial Tones,
Interpol,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Pulsallama,
Marvin Gaye,
Peter and Kerry,
The Gun Club,
Metal Thangz,
Rites of Spring,
Gregory Isaacs,
L. Decosne,
Camberwell Now,
Mandrill,
James Chance & The Contortions, James Chance & The Contortions, James Chance & The Contortions, James Chance & The Contortions.
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.