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 Portugal 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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 1965 at the first Beefheart practice in a loft in Lancaster.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra to the rock kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 It's A Beautiful Day. All the underground hits.
All The Cramps tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Neu! record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gastr Del Sol,
Nick Fraelich,
Parry Music,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Monks,
Crime,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Quando Quango,
Amon Düül II,
Warren Ellis,
Roger Hodgson,
Chris & Cosey,
Aural Exciters,
The Smiths,
Basic Channel,
Sister Nancy,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Sun Ra,
Pagans,
X-101,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Jacob Miller,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Davy DMX,
Bad Manners,
Suicide,
Jeff Mills,
Black Flag,
Whodini,
UT,
Severed Heads,
Darondo,
Brick,
Index,
A Certain Ratio,
Eli Mardock,
Ice-T,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Man Parrish,
Charles Mingus,
Minny Pops,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Dawn Penn,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Patti Smith,
Dennis Brown,
Ultra Naté,
Simply Red,
Spandau Ballet,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Zapp,
Deadbeat,
The Remains,
Young Marble Giants,
Tres Demented,
The Searchers,
kango's stein massive,
Moss Icon,
The Raincoats, The Raincoats, The Raincoats, The Raincoats.
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.