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 Cape Verde and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Lyon.
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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 the Association to the funk 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 The Motions. All the underground hits.
All The Victims 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 electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Anakelly record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rapeman,
Archie Shepp,
Unrelated Segments,
Blancmange,
Brick,
Infiniti,
Deakin,
Gregory Isaacs,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Sonny Sharrock,
Marshall Jefferson,
Monolake,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Barclay James Harvest,
Kas Product,
Junior Murvin,
The Grass Roots,
Moss Icon,
Robert Hood,
Kool Moe Dee,
World's Most,
The Alarm Clocks,
Gang Gang Dance,
Frankie Knuckles,
Marmalade,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Ralphi Rosario,
Excepter,
Tubeway Army,
Angry Samoans,
Soft Cell,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Pantaleimon,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Sarah Menescal,
Rufus Thomas,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
A Certain Ratio,
Whodini,
Eric B and Rakim,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Kerri Chandler,
Alphaville,
cv313,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Fugs,
U.S. Maple,
The Five Americans,
Delon & Dalcan,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Con Funk Shun,
Thee Headcoats,
Ornette Coleman,
Fear,
Spoonie Gee,
Harry Pussy,
Ice-T,
Juan Atkins,
Bootsy Collins,
Jawbox,
Wire, Wire, Wire, Wire.
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.