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 Nauru and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Manila.
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 linndrum 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 Zapp to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Minny Pops. All the underground hits.
All Sugar Minott tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Young Rascals record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sarah Menescal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Toni Rubio,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Alton Ellis,
Trumans Water,
Patti Smith,
Roy Ayers,
Neu!,
Dual Sessions,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Beau Brummels,
Michelle Simonal,
Kenny Larkin,
Robert Hood,
A Certain Ratio,
Agent Orange,
Television Personalities,
The United States of America,
Graham Central Station,
Black Sheep,
Bobby Byrd,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Sonic Youth,
Public Enemy,
Rufus Thomas,
Connie Case,
The Residents,
Porter Ricks,
Bush Tetras,
Schoolly D,
Hardrive,
Tres Demented,
The Sonics,
Shuggie Otis,
Fat Boys,
Yusef Lateef,
Pantaleimon,
Von Mondo,
Index,
Delta 5,
Electric Prunes,
The Velvet Underground,
The Fire Engines,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Flesh Eaters,
Marine Girls,
Gang Green,
Lucky Dragons,
Aural Exciters,
K-Klass,
Matthew Halsall,
The New Christs,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Pretty Things,
The Modern Lovers,
Reagan Youth,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Rosa Yemen,
Cecil Taylor,
Skaos,
Pagans,
Joensuu 1685,
The Wake,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu, Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu, Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu, Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu.
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.