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 Sri Lanka and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Bronski Beat show in Brixton.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Soul II Soul to the funk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Roy Ayers Ubiquity. All the underground hits.
All Echospace tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kenny Larkin 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Fall record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
MDC,
T.S.O.L.,
Fugazi,
Eddi Front,
Alphaville,
Porter Ricks,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
John Lydon,
cv313,
Junior Murvin,
The Litter,
Intrusion,
Kenny Larkin,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Panda Bear,
kango's stein massive,
The Residents,
Warren Ellis,
Morten Harket,
The Martian,
Q and Not U,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Walker Brothers,
The Gories,
Rod Modell,
Technova,
Magma,
The Modern Lovers,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Slick Rick,
Quantec,
Yaz,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Jimmy McGriff,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Skarface,
Rosa Yemen,
Juan Atkins,
The Shadows of Knight,
Dave Gahan,
Faust,
Ronan,
Sight & Sound,
Sällskapet,
Mantronix,
The Names,
Joyce Sims,
The Stooges,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
MC5,
Jawbox,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Infiniti,
Carl Craig,
Kool Moe Dee,
Drexciya,
The Skatalites,
Moebius,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Angels of Light,
Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection.
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.