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 Uzbekistan and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 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 Howard Jones to the techno 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 Young Marble Giants. All the underground hits.
All The Monochrome Set tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hardrive record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rhythim Is Rhythim record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
This Heat,
Massinfluence,
Duran Duran,
Steve Hackett,
Wings,
Ornette Coleman,
Ultra Naté,
Shuggie Otis,
Ten City,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Durutti Column,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Barry Ungar,
Mars,
Gichy Dan,
Infiniti,
Delta 5,
The Cramps,
Marshall Jefferson,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Tomorrow,
Angry Samoans,
Harry Pussy,
Graham Central Station,
AZ,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Alton Ellis,
Crispian St. Peters,
Los Fastidios,
Connie Case,
Eric Dolphy,
Rotary Connection,
Aural Exciters,
These Immortal Souls,
Jimmy McGriff,
Yazoo,
The Names,
Bad Manners,
Archie Shepp,
Second Layer,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
CMW,
The Modern Lovers,
Black Flag,
Flipper,
Technova,
Siglo XX,
The Birthday Party,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Sexual Harrassment,
Symarip,
The Barracudas,
Quando Quango,
The Techniques,
DNA,
Johnny Osbourne,
T. Rex,
Mission of Burma,
Lalann,
Sun Ra,
Minnie Riperton,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.