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 Chile and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Sound to the grunge 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 Agent Orange. All the underground hits.
All Main Source tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ossler 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Shuggie Otis,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Duran Duran,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
New York Dolls,
Essential Logic,
Arcadia,
The Angels of Light,
F. McDonald,
the Slits,
The Motions,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Techniques,
Niagra,
Supertramp,
Funky Four + One,
Urselle,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Rapeman,
Eli Mardock,
Yusef Lateef,
Circle Jerks,
John Lydon,
Fear,
The Fortunes,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
JFA,
Skarface,
Nick Fraelich,
Swell Maps,
Reuben Wilson,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Faraquet,
Max Romeo,
Cheater Slicks,
Michelle Simonal,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Young Rascals,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Wasted Youth,
Young Marble Giants,
Glenn Branca,
The Wake,
Bluetip,
UT,
Steve Hackett,
Johnny Clarke,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Soft Machine,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Lightning Bolt,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Dorothy Ashby,
Yaz,
June of 44,
Chris & Cosey,
Judy Mowatt,
Rotary Connection,
Bobby Sherman,
Boz Scaggs, Boz Scaggs, Boz Scaggs, Boz Scaggs.
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.