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 Azerbaijan and from Delhi.
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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 AZ to the jazz kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 London Community Gospel Choir. All the underground hits.
All Rod Modell tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jimmy McGriff 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun Ra Arkestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Matthew Halsall,
A Certain Ratio,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
a-ha,
Kaleidoscope,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Arcadia,
Rites of Spring,
The Stooges,
Technova,
The Barracudas,
Fear,
The Monochrome Set,
Brass Construction,
The Slits,
Sight & Sound,
The Residents,
Cluster,
Kevin Saunderson,
Sun Ra,
Grandmaster Flash,
Slave,
FM Einheit,
Interpol,
Nation of Ulysses,
Dead Boys,
The Litter,
David McCallum,
Josef K,
Boredoms,
Joensuu 1685,
Idris Muhammad,
Niagra,
The Leaves,
The Birthday Party,
Brothers Johnson,
Trumans Water,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Rod Modell,
Pulsallama,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Warsaw,
Lalann,
The Cure,
Ronan,
Lebanon Hanover,
Parry Music,
Anakelly,
Desert Stars,
Rotary Connection,
Swell Maps,
Sister Nancy,
Quantec,
June Days,
Blake Baxter,
The Durutti Column,
Bizarre Inc.,
Lakeside,
10cc,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Ten City, Ten City, Ten City, Ten City.
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.