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 Nigeria and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1969 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 T.S.O.L. to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Animal Collective. All the underground hits.
All Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 clarinet and a chamberlin 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 chamberlin and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Matthew Halsall,
Prince Buster,
X-Ray Spex,
Ossler,
Archie Shepp,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Danielle Patucci,
Country Teasers,
Ronan,
Masters at Work,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Radiohead,
John Lydon,
the Association,
These Immortal Souls,
Ice-T,
Whodini,
Mark Hollis,
Q65,
ABC,
Skaos,
Yazoo,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
the Normal,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Chrome,
Juan Atkins,
Junior Murvin,
The United States of America,
Mo-Dettes,
Mars,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Wings,
Jeff Mills,
The Mighty Diamonds,
FM Einheit,
Stockholm Monsters,
Barbara Tucker,
The Gladiators,
Swell Maps,
LL Cool J,
Suicide,
Gong,
EPMD,
Big Daddy Kane,
Lyres,
Dark Day,
The Gap Band,
Scott Walker,
Soft Cell,
Eric Copeland,
Angry Samoans,
The Smiths,
Freddie Wadling,
Panda Bear,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Tubeway Army,
Soul II Soul,
Faust,
Thee Headcoats,
Mad Mike,
Barclay James Harvest, Barclay James Harvest, Barclay James Harvest, Barclay James Harvest.
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.