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 Qatar and from Winnipeg.
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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 Tom Verlaine 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 Ultimate Spinach 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 Black Sheep. All the underground hits.
All De La Soul & Jungle Brothers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bizarre Inc. 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Television Personalities record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Maleditus Sound,
Gregory Isaacs,
Qualms,
the Soft Cell,
The Red Krayola,
Schoolly D,
The Remains,
Liliput,
The Toasters,
Gang Starr,
Hasil Adkins,
Eurythmics,
Wings,
The Selecter,
MDC,
Agent Orange,
Idris Muhammad,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Fire Engines,
Shoche,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Pet Shop Boys,
Hot Snakes,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Five Americans,
Matthew Halsall,
Bob Dylan,
Model 500,
Ken Boothe,
Aaron Thompson,
Eve St. Jones,
Rhythm & Sound,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Neon Judgement,
Angry Samoans,
Joensuu 1685,
the Normal,
Eric Dolphy,
X-Ray Spex,
Warsaw,
The Grass Roots,
Alison Limerick,
Lyres,
Mission of Burma,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Names,
Pharoah Sanders,
Roxy Music,
Stiv Bators,
Erykah Badu,
Nik Kershaw,
Juan Atkins,
Laurel Aitken,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Ultravox,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Anthony Braxton,
Terrestrial Tones,
Kerri Chandler, Kerri Chandler, Kerri Chandler, Kerri Chandler.
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.