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 Dominican Republic and from Woodstock.
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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Severed Heads to the grime kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Whodini. All the underground hits.
All Joey Negro tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Public Image Ltd. record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Susan Cadogan,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
10cc,
LL Cool J,
Suburban Knight,
Funky Four + One,
Mandrill,
Sonic Youth,
Wasted Youth,
Warren Ellis,
Bizarre Inc.,
Flash Fearless,
The Alarm Clocks,
Prince Buster,
The Skatalites,
Drive Like Jehu,
Monolake,
Neil Young,
Soulsonic Force,
Cymande,
The Young Rascals,
Urselle,
Sonny Sharrock,
Buzzcocks,
The Index,
Kerri Chandler,
Nils Olav,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Anthony Braxton,
Slave,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Janne Schatter,
Ultimate Spinach,
Lebanon Hanover,
PIL,
Rapeman,
the Human League,
Soul II Soul,
Bob Dylan,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Los Fastidios,
Nas,
La Düsseldorf,
Deadbeat,
Absolute Body Control,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Knickerbockers,
The Toasters,
Guru Guru,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Organ,
Terry Callier,
Warsaw,
Angry Samoans,
Smog,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Sun Ra,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Black Flag,
The Black Dice,
Ludus,
Joey Negro,
Joyce Sims,
Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot.
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.