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 Antigua and from Delhi.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Philadelphia.
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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Bang on a Can All-Stars to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Motions. All the underground hits.
All Neu! tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Royal Trux record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marcia Griffiths record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Loose Ends,
Trumans Water,
Piero Umiliani,
UT,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
the Human League,
the Soft Cell,
Morten Harket,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Smiths,
Sugar Minott,
The Offenders,
Qualms,
The Zeros,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Victims,
The Doobie Brothers,
Sarah Menescal,
Black Sheep,
Bluetip,
Gabor Szabo,
cv313,
Man Eating Sloth,
Connie Case,
Isaac Hayes,
Bad Manners,
The Fall,
Al Stewart,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Fire Engines,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Rod Modell,
Sun City Girls,
John Cale,
Livin' Joy,
New York Dolls,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Pet Shop Boys,
Quando Quango,
The Velvet Underground,
Faraquet,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Barracudas,
Tubeway Army,
Can,
The Trojans,
Spoonie Gee,
Sister Nancy,
Pylon,
Roxy Music,
Gil Scott Heron,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
DJ Style,
Interpol,
Boogie Down Productions,
Minutemen,
The Doors,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes.
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.