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 Madagascar and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 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 Siouxsie and the Banshees to the grime 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 Mr. Review. All the underground hits.
All Scott Walker tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Swans 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 güiro and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jesper Dahlback record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Martian,
The Evens,
Girls At Our Best!,
Sound Behaviour,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Man Eating Sloth,
Jeff Mills,
Soul Sonic Force,
Eurythmics,
Franke,
Traffic Nightmare,
Erykah Badu,
Joey Negro,
Yazoo,
Graham Central Station,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Nation of Ulysses,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Audionom,
Sun City Girls,
Steve Hackett,
the Soft Cell,
Sparks,
Eric Copeland,
Donald Byrd,
the Normal,
Glambeats Corp.,
Eden Ahbez,
Clear Light,
Matthew Halsall,
Supertramp,
Janne Schatter,
Archie Shepp,
CMW,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Laurel Aitken,
John Foxx,
The Moleskins,
The Neon Judgement,
Soft Machine,
Wally Richardson,
T.S.O.L.,
Make Up,
Easy Going,
The Fortunes,
Black Bananas,
FM Einheit,
Pole,
Anakelly,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Gabor Szabo,
The Doobie Brothers,
K-Klass,
ABC,
Pulsallama,
Derrick Morgan,
Japan,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Robert Wyatt, Robert Wyatt, Robert Wyatt, Robert Wyatt.
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.