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 China and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Houston.
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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Lou Christie to the crunk 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 The Barracudas. All the underground hits.
All Eve St. Jones tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Yaz record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Subhumans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Sonics,
X-101,
Minny Pops,
Grey Daturas,
Masters at Work,
The Monochrome Set,
Kas Product,
Rekid,
David Axelrod,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Ituana,
Unwound,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Intrusion,
The Mummies,
Qualms,
Section 25,
K-Klass,
Los Fastidios,
Surgeon,
Glenn Branca,
a-ha,
The Techniques,
Arab on Radar,
Harpers Bizarre,
Ludus,
Lindisfarne,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Pop Group,
The Move,
Thee Headcoats,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Marvin Gaye,
Crime,
Youth Brigade,
Crispy Ambulance,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Sugar Minott,
Alison Limerick,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Animal Collective,
Scrapy,
the Human League,
Idris Muhammad,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Shuggie Otis,
Camberwell Now,
Joyce Sims,
David McCallum,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Detroit Cobras,
Guru Guru,
The Saints,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Gap Band,
Fluxion,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Neil Young,
This Heat, This Heat, This Heat, This Heat.
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.